In 1917, the Commission of Fine Arts requested John Russell Pope to prepare sketches of the State, War, and Navy building that incorporated Classical facades.

1917年，美术委员会要求约翰·罗素·波普准备国家、战争和海军建筑的草图，这些建筑包含了古典主义的外观。

youdao

After the war, a new school building was put up where there had once been a theatre.

战争结束后，曾经是剧院的地方建起了一座新学校。

youdao

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy.

如最初所知，国家、战事有关机构和海军大厦设有三个行政部门，它们与制定和实施国家外交政策关系最为密切。

youdao

The company made a great deal of money buying land and building houses after World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

We've seen a boom in building in the United States that is at a record level, except for that one Korean War blip, and so I think it's a highly abnormal situation that we've been in.

所以美国出现一波建造新房的浪潮,规模空前,仅次于朝鲜战争时期,我认为这是极不正常的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The Twentieth Century Society is campaigning to save artwork from the post-war building boom.

BBC: Are we allowing great works of art to disintegrate?

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.

BBC: Glasgow & West Scotland

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.

ECONOMIST: Museum architecture