info The architect of this building, Thomas Oliphant Foster worked with Edwin Lutyens on his designs for New Delhi. The echo of the monumentalism Lutyens strove for in New Delhi is evident here.

An article from the time describes this as the city's finest, most modern building and drawings for its design were hung at the Royal Academy in London. Constructed between 1927 and 1931, no expense was spared for these New Law Courts, which also housed the Police Commissioner's office. For the enormous steel framework almost 3,000 tons of steel were shipped from England, as were each of the 22 lonic capitols. When the Japanese occupied Myanmar during World War II, this building was the headquarters of the much-feared Kempetai, or Japanese secret police. After 1974, the building became the headquarters for the Burma Socialist Programme Party.

In 2013, a company called Flying Tiger Engineering announced that they will be redeveloping the Police Commissioner's Building into a hotel under the name "The Heritage Hotel Yangon" in partnership with the Kempinski group from Switzerland, with a 60-year lease for the building to be used as a hotel, which was awarded by Myanmar's president at the time, President U Thein Sein. This caused a controversy as Myanmar Lawyer's Network protested against the project due to it violating Myanmar's national conservation laws. However, the officials from the Flying Tiger Engineering stated that their contract required them to preserve the original architectural features of the building during the process of redevelopment.

 In 2018, it was announced that the plans for The Heritage Hotel Yangon has been cancelled five years into the project and that the redevelopment project has been transferred to Rosewood Hotels & Resorts. The Rosewood Yangon is set to open in the winter of 2018.

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build Year established: 1931

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place Location: 14, Strand Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Myanmar

local_phone Phone: +852 2138 2222

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public Website: www.rosewoodhotels.com

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