Supervisors OK Razing API Building to Make Way for Homes

Table of Content

• UPDATE: Helicopters of DC Weighs in on Twitter Suspension
• Virginia School Districts Push Back Against Youngkin’s Guidelines Restricting Trans Students
• The Bellaire by Sekas Homes
• Find Custom Home Builders to Help Get the Job Done
• The Hixton II by Sekas Homes
• There’s a “Secret” New Peter Chang Restaurant in Fairfax
• Dominion Energy Residential New Construction Program

Our company has also gained the recognition from many clients and real estate professionals for our attention to detail and high quality while working in a timely manner. We are proud of the fact that we have maintained a reputation for our integrity and excellent client relations. In being an accomplished and full-service construction firm, our goal is to design and build beautiful homes that inspire and provide all the comforts of daily living. Summer is over - its time to FALL in love with a new home! This like-new brick townhouse shows like a model and boasts an array of upgrades.

The builder proposing to demolish the Breuer building, Sekas Homes, would replace it with 34 townhouses and 10 condos, plus a meadow, trail, and tot lot, and would set aside units for affordable and workforce housing. The site is less than a mile from the Wiehle-Reston East station. Courtesy Carol Ann Riordan.“The promise of a new community was part of Breuer’s interest in the project in the first place,” says Cheryl Terio-Simon, Robert Simon’s widow and a Reston resident, who wants to see the API building preserved. “It’s particularly heartbreaking that this community should fail both these men’s concepts.” She adds that with a new building by acclaimed architect Helmut Jahn under construction now, Reston has an ongoing tradition of notable architecture. On the other hand, Brutalism is part of Reston’s DNA as it is in few other communities, let alone suburban ones. Robert E. Simon founded the town in the 1960s as an alternative to conventional suburbia, with self-contained villages of homes, shops, and parkland.

UPDATE: Helicopters of DC Weighs in on Twitter Suspension

Hunter Mill Supervisor Cathy Hudgins said while she appreciated the efforts to save the building at Sunrise Valley Dr., the building did not have historical designation and was not in a historical overlay district. 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. He recently ruptured his Achilles and has an incredibly long and tough journey ahead. As if COVID hadn’t impacted fitness professionals enough, throw this in the mix and it’s a double, even triple whammy.

The limbo that the API building finds itself in is increasingly common for works of Brutalist architecture. Although it’s esteemed by designers, the style—defined by its use of rugged concrete and lack of ornament—comes across as drab or forbidding to many people. DC’s Brutalist Third Church of Christ, Scientist, was torn down in 2014, and the hulking FBI building downtown is probably not long for this world as the agency plans its exit. Reston’s Breuer building, formerly the American Press Institute , stands on Sunrise Valley Drive.

Virginia School Districts Push Back Against Youngkin’s Guidelines Restricting Trans Students

Staging homes with the same floor plan can provide an opportunity to design and create different looks within one space. For the past few years, we have had the privilege of working with Sekas Homes staging three of their model homes with almost the same floor plan and creating three totally different looks. Sekas Homes brings understated elegance and craftsmanship to each of the homes they build. The attention to detail is evident and it's what makes a great partnership between our two companies.

Ft. to social distance the school has added air ionization filtration systems, ballet barres, acrylic dividers, hands free bathrooms, strict monitoring and more. Prior to the supervisors’ vote, the board heard from more than 20 speakers on both side of the issue. At NewHomeSource.com, we update the content on our site on a nightly basis.

The Bellaire by Sekas Homes

Lake Anne Village was the first of these; it was designed in a Brutalist vein by the firm of Whittlesey, Conklin and Rossant. Each of these Reston town home models were staged from six months to a year. It demonstrates how you can create a totally different look with the same space just by using different furnishings and purposes for the space.

Ideally located just minutes from EVERYTHING - major roads, metro, bus routes, Reston Town Center and more. Photograph courtesy Carol Ann Riordan.Fairfax County’s planning commission staff approved Sekas’s application in April, finding it consistent with the county’s transit-oriented development goals and other planning guidelines. Most recently, Sekas Homes developed Sunrise Square, a townhome community in Reston, VA. We were asked to stage the Model Home. We have staged a total of 3 Model Homes so far - each with their own look and own personality. The floor plan remains basically the same - the design makes each one different. Scroll down to view how each room style evolved over time.

Find Custom Home Builders to Help Get the Job Done

Sekas Homes, Ltd. is an award winning custom home builder who has provided luxurious residences and communities in Northern Virginia for over three decades. We have earned the reputation as Northern Virginia's premier builder of luxury and custom homes. We specialize in high-end construction, starting with creative visions and the highest standards. Our distinctive designs and detail allow us to create prestigious homes in our exclusive communities.

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. Today, a wave of new development is rising to meet the Silver Line as it extends westward. Reston is trying to reconcile this growth with its progressive founding principles.

CG is no longer able to work and do what he loves for the time being because of this and we’d love your support. The supervisors’ mission is to stick to judging an application on “meeting the criteria set forth in the Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance for this area and supported by recommendation of approval by Department of Planning and Zoning,” she said. 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 Ravel Dance Studio will produce a Nutcracker Ballet Hollywood style video through the Reston Community CenterStage. The Ravel Dance Studio will re-open for fall classes 2020. The school will offer in person and virtual online instruction.

We seek to ensure that all of the data presented on the site regarding new homes and new home communities is current and accurate. It is your responsibility to independently verify the information on the site. If you’re browsing Houzz and have a contractor in mind, then you’ll quickly find that requesting a quote is easier than ever. From one simple dashboard, you can manage all the Custom Home Builder quotes you got. Read homeowners reviews before hiring the Custom Home Builder to help with your project in Vienna. If you have questions, read other homeowners’ reviews or our discussion forum for a second opinion.

But there were several speakers who enumerated the impracticality of the 45,000-square-foot building, which has been empty since the API merged with the Newspaper Association of America in 2012. With over 1 million home professionals on Houzz, you’ll easily find the trusted Custom Home Builder for your next project in Vienna, VA. 1971 Roland Clark, Reston VA | Towhome Staged by Design, LLC #homestaging Simplicity...Less is More.