The 25,000-square-foot American Press Institute (API) Building was designed in 1972 and completed in 1974, with a planned 13,000-square-foot addition realized in 1980. The two-story building rests on a bucolic, sloping site alongside a small lake within what is now a Reston office park, opposite a golf course, roughly 40 minutes by car or public transportation outside Washington, D.C. Concrete is the prevailing material, with deep-set window bays of 26-foot-high precast structural concrete marking the east and west façades and supporting a clear-span roof. Column-free conference rooms on the upper level looked out over the lake, with administrative support offices occupying the building's lower level. The API Building served as a training facility for journalists until the API moved to Arlington in 2012 following a merger with the Newspaper Association of America; it has sat vacant ever since. In July 2016, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to allow rezoning of a parcel in Reston, Virginia that contains the former API building, in effect permitting the building's destruction to make way for residential development. (Adapted from the Architect's Newspaper)