Supervisors OK Razing API Building to Make Way for Homes

(RECAP: After a campaign by architectural archivists and historians to save and repurpose the Marcel Breuer-designed former American Press Institute building in Reston, the building learned its fate Tuesday night. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to allow developer Sekas Homes to demolish the 42-year-old Brutalist building and construct in its place 34 townhomes and 10 condos. Hunter Mill Supervisor Cathy Hudgins said while she appreciated efforts to save the building, it did not have historical designation and was not in a historical overlay district. The supervisors and the planning commission have said they would increase efforts to identify potential historic structures so this kind of struggle does not happen again. The supervisors also passed a motion that efforts will be made to preserve an archive of the building and its history.)