Five buildings on the RTÉ campus should be listed as protected structures, according to Dublin City Council planners.
An official assessment has recommended that the campus buildings with all their original features and fittings should be added to the Record of Protected Structures.
It follows applications by Peter Cody of the modernist architecture preservation group DoCoMoMo and Ian Lumley of An Taisce.
Mr Cody said the five buildings dating from the 1960s and 1970s and designed by architect Scott Tallon Walker are the finest examples of 'Miesian architecture' in these islands.
He said: "These public buildings, constructed for the newly formed semi-state body, inaugurated on the arrival of Seán Lemass as Taoiseach in 1959, give full expression to the aspirations and direction of the nascent Irish state to engage fully with the outside world and the modern project."
Ian Lumley of An Taisce pointed out that the buildings are included in the architectural study '1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die'.
The five buildings are the Television Building built in 1962 with an extension in 1979, Scene Dock Buildings 1965, Restaurant Building 1965, Administration Building 1967 and Radio Building 1973.
The application will come before the local South East Area committee and if passed it has to go to a full monthly city council meeting before it is put out to public consultation.
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Local Independent councillor Mannix Flynn said he will be supporting the move.
"This is the right thing to do. The buildings are of enormous significance and what was created in them had an even greater positive impact on the lives of the Irish people and our nation.
"This set of structures at Donnybrook are national cultural institutions and national treasures."
A proposal by Labour councillor Dermot Lacey to have the transmission tower listed was not recommended, but planner Paraic Fallon stated that any proposed development would have to take account of its context within a campus of five proposed protected structures.
The report notes the buildings' place in the country's history, as well as their cultural and social significance.
