It happened in 1921, after World War I as the government cancelled orders for war materials.

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Thousands of properties in Scotland date from before World War One and many desperately require repairs using traditional materials and techniques.

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Whether built with delicate sensitivity to materials or dull adherence to principles, the glass box became an icon of Cold War capitalism, a symbol of modernist cosmopolitanism befitting a global superpower in the making.

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