The Twentieth Century Society is campaigning to save artwork from the post-war building boom.
The museum, which was opened by the Queen in 1983, was voted Scotland's second greatest post-war building in a magazine poll of architects in 2005.
The new buildings face the Kimbell Art Museum, the finest post-war building in Texas, and the building against which any new architecture in the state will be measured in the current museum-athon.
Not all concrete ideals of the post-war building boom have survived, Alison and Peter Smithson's polemic Robin Hood Gardens in east London is not long for this life, despite the protestations of the architectural elite.
They were eventually saved after a campaign by historians to rescue them from the old War Office building in Whitehall.
During World War I, the building was used as a hospital and during World War II it was an army headquarters.
It seems I'm not the only conservative in America who has doubts about the necessity of a nation-building war strategy.
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After the Gulf War, Saddam began building a modern palace for himself on top of ruins in the style of a Sumerian ziggurat.
During World War II, the building was occupied by Japanese officers.
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Marquee investments in companies like Facebook make a big difference when firms are out building their war chests, putting pressure on them to get in on hot deals.
The nature of the disagreement is similar to the main security controversy in the United States during the Cold War: Conservatives favored building up U.S. defense resources as the key to peace.
Each floor of the elite Pre-War co-op building is dedicated to a single apartment, claiming a distinguished roster of past and present residents, including the late Hollywood screen siren (and famously private) Greta Garbo.
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Abbas says he won't return to negotiations without an Israeli construction freeze, arguing that Israel's building on war-won land pre-empts the outcome of talks on a border between Israel and a future state of Palestine.
In the run up to the war, we heard a building series of warnings, counter-warnings and outright threats.
"The U.S. reconstruction management structure was overwhelmed by the challenges of building in a war zone, " the report said.
After the war he went into business building homes for returning veterans.
Bath Abbey has begun a project to create an oral history of the people who helped restore the building after World War II.
Instead of building up their war chests to fight a general election every four or five years, the parties now raid them all the time.
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For his part, Mr Obama has made it clear that he would countenance war only if Iran were building a nuclear weapon, which his intelligence chiefs do not now think is the case.
Change is finally turning the page on a decade of war to do some nation-building here at home.
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Past British prime ministers have travelled to this Capitol building in times of war to talk of war.
The earlier they get going, the more chance they have of building the sort of war chest they need to run a convincing campaign.
Our shared interest is in building peace in a war-torn land -- a peace that provides no safe haven for violent extremists, and that provide hope for the Afghan people.
The greens thought they had won the intellectual war over the economics of road building after the government's technical committee SACTRA warned in the 1990s that there was no guarantee that road building would stimulate jobs.
But a series of confidence-building measures has succeeded in making war seem almost inconceivable.
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Change is turning the page on a decade of war so we can do some nation-building here at home.
Change is turning the page on a decade of war so we can focus on nation-building here at home.
After a decade of war, our nation needs to do some building right here in the United States of America.
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