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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

80spocalypse Now: Yet Another Reston 'Landmark' Falls To The Wrecking Ball

From the Facebooks, this poignant cellular telephone photograph depicts the demolition of this 30-year-old office building along Sunrise Valley Drive, right next to where a legitimate brutalist masterpiece of concrete and unflattering right angles was flattened last year to make room for some unremarkable townhouses. Looks like our efforts to spark a similar wave of support for preserving this equally iconic reminder of the last great unfettered Fairfax County building boom went unheeded. As another great real estate developer might say, Sad!

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  1. Like the API building, this is taking forever for the demolition crews to level. They don't build them like they used to!

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  2. There is a very nice photo of that building in one of the Reston Association meeting rooms. I wonder if they have taken it down?

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  3. Finally someone has the courage to tear down generic disposable offices and put generic disposable residential units in their place

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