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。

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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

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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