Restoring the China Bank building

CHINA Banking Corp. (China Bank), one of the Philippines' oldest and most respected banks, recently accomplished a feat of faithful heritage conservation combined with state-of-the-art engineering retrofitting plus construction of a museum in its first and original office building in Binondo, Manila.

This is the same China Bank which gave the first bank loans to generations of rugged self-made entrepreneurs like Henry Sy Sr. and John Gokongwei Jr. who eventually became business legends. Other notable legendary clients of China Bank include the Cojuangcos of Tarlac (financing their first sugar mill in 1927), construction mogul David Consunji, tuna king Ricardo Po Sr., among others.