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Arthur Cotton Moore, a Washington architect who painstakingly renovated landmarks such as the Library of Congress and gave the capital a new waterfront destination with the development of Washington Harbour, preserving the city’s urban landscape even as he pushed it to evolve, died Sept. 4 at his home in Washington. He was 87.
The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, said his wife, Patricia Moore.
A sixth-generation Washingtonian, Mr. Moore established his firm, Arthur Cotton Moore/Associates, in 1965 and over the next half-century became one of the preeminent architects in the capital, overseeing more than $1 billion in office buildings alone. Read More...
For most people, developing altitude sickness at 9,000 feet in one of the most inhospitable environments on earth would count as a fairly substantial life crisis.
But most people are not Buzz Aldrin, the moonwalking American hero who rarely behaves like your average 86-year-old.
For the legendary astronaut, a brush with death at the end of the world was no big deal.
"I got out of breath," he told the " Read More...
