Explore: Temporary Buildings

The U.S. government constructed a number of temporary buildings on the National Mall during World War I and II which stood from 1918 until 1971. They

Mall (Potomac Park) as the largest of a set of temporary war buildings on the National Mall. Both buildings were constructed by the Navy's Bureau of Yards

modular building but portable buildings can be different in that they are more often used temporarily and taken away later. Portable buildings (e.g. yurts)

is a kind of artificial stone used for covering and ornamenting temporary buildings. It is chiefly made of plaster of Paris (powdered gypsum), with a

while the cleared building sites would become garden. Goodhue emphasized that "only by thus razing all of the Temporary Buildings will San Diego enter

constructed a number of temporary buildings (tempos) on the Mall, disrupting the area's planned layout. Most of these buildings were in two clusters: one

the buildings' façades, white staff, gave the fairgrounds its nickname, the White City. Many prominent architects designed its 14 "great buildings". Artists

Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one

Army, was spread out in additional temporary buildings on the National Mall, as well as dozens of other buildings in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia

the hundreds of temporary buildings at the Expo was notable because of the almost exclusive usage of a new, cheap and pliable building material called