Arthur Cotton Moore, a Washington architect who painstakingly renovated landmarks such because the Library of Congress and gave the capital a brand new waterfront vacation spot with the event of Washington Harbour, preserving town’s city panorama at the same time as he pushed it to evolve, died Sept. 4 at his house in Washington. He was 87.
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Arthur Cotton Moore, defining architect of Washington, dies at 87
The trigger was pulmonary fibrosis, mentioned his spouse, Patricia Moore.
A sixth-generation Washingtonian, Mr. Moore established his agency, Arthur Cotton Moore/Associates, in 1965 and over the subsequent half-century grew to become one of many preeminent architects within the capital, overseeing greater than $1 billion in workplace buildings alone. “I want I had designed as a lot of my city as he has,” Hugh Newell Jacobsen, one other of town’s main architects, advised The Washington Put up in 1981.
Within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, Mr. Moore served as a consulting architect on an $81.5 million renovation of the Thomas Jefferson Constructing, the centerpiece of the Library of Congress, which reopened after the work in 1997. Dropped ceilings have been eliminated to disclose long-forgotten work. Art work was scrubbed of years of mud and buildup. Stained glass and mosaics have been restored. Structural modifications introduced the cavernous constructing — which Mr. Moore mentioned had solely two hearth extinguishers — at lengthy last as long as security codes.
Lauding the “dazzling restoration,” New York Instances structure critic Herbert Muschamp wrote that guests to the newly refurbished library discovered themselves in a “place of radiance.”
Earlier, Mr. Moore helped rescue the Outdated Put up Workplace on Pennsylvania Avenue NW from demolition. He performed a number one function within the renovation of that constructing in addition to the Phillips Assortment, the personal artwork museum in Dupont Circle the place work had as soon as been saved within the toilet for lack of house, in addition to the Cairo, the condo constructing on Q Avenue NW that’s the tallest residential construction in Washington.
In these tasks, Mr. Moore displayed a reverence for historical past that endeared him to preservationists and advocates for conventional design.
On the Outdated Put up Workplace, his “intervention didn’t take away from the character of the unique constructing,” Dhiru A. Thadani, a Washington-based architect and urbanist, mentioned in an interview. On the Jefferson constructing, Thadani added, “it’s nearly such as you don’t know he was there.”
“We would all be grateful that Arthur Cotton Moore has humanely preserved the perfect of Washington,” Michael Curtis, the writer of the guide “Classical Structure and Monuments of Washington, D.C.,” wrote in an e mail.
In his personal designs, Mr. Moore was extra exuberant, difficult the Washington aesthetic that appeared to carry, he wrote, that “good structure is only a utilitarian constructing whose best virtues are creating wealth and never leaking.” Town, as he noticed it, was filled with boxy constructions erected to deal with town’s legal professionals, lobbyists and “green-shaded bureaucrats.” Even the Kennedy Middle, he advised Washingtonian journal, was “like a Whitman Sampler, with toothpicklike columns.”
Mr. Moore sought to confer on town’s structure a touch of lightness, even whimsy, along with his signature curvaceous, futuristic kinds. His design for the outdated Rizik’s trend boutique on Connecticut Avenue NW, with its undulating traces, exemplified the type he referred to as “Industrial Baroque.”
“Individuals are bored with countless grid-crunching,” he advised the Instances in 1990. “Baroque offers with fashionable design’s concern and loathing of the curve — simply what I believe is lacking in fashionable design.”
Mr. Moore’s most famous design was Washington Harbour, a $200 million advanced located alongside the banks of the Potomac River in Georgetown. Within the Nineteen Sixties, he had undertaken the restoration of close by Canal Sq., a Nineteenth-century warehouse that he transformed into retail and workplace house, marking the start of his decades-long effort to remodel the neighborhood.
For a few years, the Georgetown waterfront was hardly a vacation spot. It included a concrete plant and a car parking zone for impounded automobiles. Throughout one interval in its historical past, a stench emanated from a constructing used for animal rendering. “In the future they tried to enhance the scent by dumping chocolate into the factor,” Mr. Moore advised The Put up, “and there was a scent of rancid chocolate throughout Georgetown.”
But he noticed the potential for a brand new Washington landmark — a mix of luxurious condominiums, eating places, workplace house and shops with a promenade alongside the water. After years of battles with Georgetown neighborhood activists who argued for extra park and public house, Washington Harbour opened in 1986.
The undertaking was not universally fashionable. Writing within the Instances, structure critic Paul Goldberger described it as “a very busy cacophony of curves and arches and turrets and columns and domes and bay home windows.”
“As a piece of structure Washington Harbour appears like a contemporary constructing trapped in a postmodern girdle,” he wrote. “Its elements appear to conflict intensely, and the advanced has neither the integrity of a very classical construction nor that of a very fashionable one. It’s ponderous and graceless, a reminder that industrial structure in Washington remains to be years behind the instances.”
Mr. Moore was undeterred by the criticism.
“I used to be effectively conscious,” he wrote shortly after Washington Harbour opened, “that whereas nobody has ever been pilloried for producing a boring constructing in Washington, the buildings most beloved right here, such because the Cairo, the Outdated Put up Workplace, the Smithsonian Citadel and the Library of Congress … all obtained horrible evaluations by architectural critics at their openings.”
Many years later, as individuals continued to collect and dine on the waterfront, he appeared to contemplate his imaginative and prescient fulfilled, a minimum of partly.
“Earlier than Washington Harbour, individuals didn’t even understand they have been residing on a river,” Mr. Moore advised Washingtonian in 2005. “The Potomac wasn’t a part of the collective consciousness.”
Arthur Cotton Moore was born April 12, 1935, and grew up in a Victorian home within the Kalorama neighborhood that was later destroyed to accommodate the Chinese language embassy. His father was a Navy captain, and his mom was a homemaker.
After graduating from the personal St. Albans College in 1954, Mr. Moore enrolled at Princeton College — partly to keep away from the Naval Academy, he mentioned. His freshman 12 months, he signed up for a category in architectural drawing.
“What hooked me was the concept of constructing your drawings come to life,” he advised The Put up. “I discover nice pleasure in truly seeing my squiggles on paper constructed. The one true award in structure is when a whole bunch of individuals make your buildings actual.”
He obtained a bachelor’s diploma in 1958 and a grasp’s diploma in 1960, each in structure.
His marriage to Yolanda Andrea Clapp resulted in divorce.
Survivors embrace his spouse of almost six a long time, the previous Patricia Stefan of Washington; a son from his first marriage, Gregory W. Moore of Highland Park, N.J.; a sister; a brother; and a grandson.
Mr. Moore and his spouse lived for a interval in Talbot County, on Maryland’s Jap Shore, in a chrome steel mansion of Mr. Moore’s design. In recent times, that they had resided in a penthouse condo on the Watergate constructing alongside the Potomac.
Along with his architectural work, Mr. Moore was painter, a furnishings maker and a novelist. He was the writer of books together with “Interruption of the Cocktail Hour: A Washington Yarn of Artwork, Homicide, and the Tried Assassination of the President,” in addition to “The Powers of Preservation: New Life for City Historic Locations” and “Our Nation’s Capital: Professional Bono Publico Concepts.”
The latter guide, printed in 2017, detailed his imaginative and prescient for tasks that he hoped would possibly someday come to fruition in Washington: a staircase linking the Kennedy Middle’s terrace to the Potomac River; a ferry connecting the Kennedy Middle, Washington Harbour and Rosslyn, Va.; an expanded Nationwide Mall with underground parking; even open-air artwork and guide stands alongside the imposing sides of the FBI headquarters.
“They’d fold up at night time,” he urged, “like Parisian bookstalls.”
Amongst his ultimate inventive tasks, his spouse mentioned, was a chrome steel sculpture of a tree, its gleaming branches curved as if bending within the wind. The work can be put in later this month, she mentioned, at his grave in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown.
The Gonzaga men’s basketball team pulled away from Washington State for an 88-75 victory in the first meeting between the in-state rivals in over a decade.
Graham Ike led the way with 21 points on 8-for-11 from the field, Nolan Hickman added 19 points and the Bulldogs (14-4, 5-0 WCC) earned their fifth straight win to open league play by putting the Cougars (13-5, 3-2 WCC) away early in the second half. After ending the first half on an 8-2 scoring run, the Zags came out of the second half with a sense of urgency on both ends, sparking a 15-5 scoring run to make it a double-digit margin.
Here’s what Gonzaga head coach Mark Few had to say after the game.
On what he told the team at halftime that led to the strong start to the second half:
“I just told them, ‘hey, we’re in a we’re in a battle. It’s a great game. Both teams are competing really hard, and we’re at our best when we’re in attack mode.’ And they did a great job of taking the message and I thought we really went out and turned defense into offense, and we knew that was going to be a big key for us. [The Cougars] are hard to guard, they’re big and they’re physical, and [WSU coach David Riley] does a really lot of nice stuff on on offense that exploits mismatches. But our guys battled tonight, so I was really proud of them.”
On the team’s performance while Ryan Nembhard was on the bench for the final 9 minutes of the first half:
“They played great. I told them that in the locker room that that was huge. We haven’t really had to do that all year. And this guy [Nolan Hickman] stepped up. He was amazing tonight. I mean, seven boards … defensively in there, battling in the post. I mean, he did a lot of stuff that, as I said, he’s now, he set a high standard, so kind of be counting on that moving forward, but he and Dusty [Stromer] both really helped during that stretch and [Khalif Battle] and obviously having Ben [Gregg] and then Graham was rock solid all night.”
On the team’s effort on the defensive end of the floor in the second half:
“I thought our effort and our making plays, I thought it was definitely up there [with the best of the season], and just the physicality that it took. Because, again, they’re so much bigger than us at several of those spots. And again, you just don’t see the post-up thing like this, where your guards are getting constantly posted. But so in that way, we fought, we were physical and kind of had to navigate our way through a lot of different actions. There’s staggers and some curls and some switches and all that. For the most part, we did pretty good.”
The Washington Nationals have continued to invest into the pitching staff with another free agency move on Saturday.
Shared on social media, the Nationals announced that they had agreed to terms with relief pitcher Jorge Lopez on a one-year contract. That deal will be worth $3 million plus incentives per Jon Heyman.
This is the third pitcher that Washington has signed this offseason, with Michael Soroka brought in as a free agent and Trevor Williams receiving a new deal to say.
They also added another reliever, Evan Reifert, as a Rule 5 draft pick from the Tampa Bay Rays.
Lopez made headlines last year with his infamous exit from the New York Mets. He caused a stir after a loss when he referred to himself as ‘the worst teammate on the worst team in baseball.’
For a lot of players, that might spell an end to the season. The fastball-heavy reliever was able to bounce back. He was released and then signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs.
The 31-year-old came back from controversy as strong as ever, posting a 2.03 ERA over the final 26.2 innings of work.
With the loss of Kyle Finnegan, Lopez makes sense as a potential replacement at closer. He does have some closing experience, but has not been his main role for much of his career.
That season, 2022, was the year he made his first and only All-Star team.
He is a ground ball machine that loves to force bad contact. Keeping him in a situational role could also be a smart idea, given that he struggles against lefties.
No matter how he is used, this is another good signal that the Nationals don’t want to throw any season away.
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For Michigan basketball, the recent West Coast trip went about as well as hoped.
The No. 24 Wolverines (12-3, 4-0 Big Ten) picked up a pair of double-digit wins against the Big Ten’s Los Angeles-based teams — topping USC, 85-74, last Saturday and then defeating No. 21 UCLA, 94-75, Tuesday night as wildfires raged a few miles away — and now return home looking to make it three consecutive wins against league newcomers, welcoming Washington (10-6, 1-4) to Ann Arbor on Sunday afternoon (2 p.m., Big Ten Network).
The Huskies’ first trip to the Midwest hasn’t started well; they were dog-walked by Michigan State in East Lansing, 88-54, on Thursday. U-W trailed by 29 points at the half (42-13) and by more than 40 points in the second half (82-41 with less than five minutes to play) in an utter annihilation.
After two tight wins in conference play — by three points over Wisconsin and two over Iowa — U-M has won four games in a row by double digits and could make it five straight, with one of the bottom teams in the Big Ten coming to town.
Great Osobor with not-so-great help
U-Dub forward Great Osobor made headlines this offseason when he transferred from Utah State to Washington (following head coach Danny Sprinkle) for a then-record NIL deal worth $2 million.
Apparently, money doesn’t buy wins, because while Osobor has been decent, it hasn’t been nearly enough for the Huskies.
The senior leads the Huskies in scoring (13.8 points per game) and rebounding (8.4) but his efficiency has taken a large drop, as he has shot just 45% from the floor on 3s after hitting at least 57.7% in each of his first three college seasons. Some of that might be attributable to his increased 3-point tries — after attempting just 18 3s (and making four, for a 22.2% success rate) in his first 104 games, he has 14 3-point tries in 16 games this season (with only two makes, a 15.3% rate). More concerning is his 2-point shooting percentage: After hitting 59.1% last season, he’s at 47.7% inside the arc this season.
He has scored in double figures in 11 games with the Huskies, though much of his success came in a weak nonconference schedule. Though he put up 20 points and 14 rebounds vs. Maryland, he had just nine points and three boards vs. USC and a combined 15 points and eight rebounds vs. Illinois and MSU.
Sophomore guard Tyler Harris (Portland) is next at 12.3 points and 5.3 rebounds per game while freshman point guard Zoom Diallo, a top-50 recruit according to 247 Sports’ composite rankings, averages 10.8 points per contest for Sprinkle’s team.
Overall, U-Dub is simply not up to Big Ten standard. On defense, the Huskies are No. 7 nationally in limiting 3-pointers (28%) and No. 69 in efficiency (99.9), per KenPom, but on offense, the Huskies are No. 149 in efficiency (107.4), No. 201 in 2-point shooting (50.1%) and No. 240 on 3s (32%).
Depth on display
The Wolverines, meanwhile, continue to flex their depth and balance with each passing game.
Michigan just defeated UCLA by 19 on the road and did so by scoring 94 points (the most a Mick Cronin team has ever allowed at home) without perhaps its most proven guard: Roddy Gayle Jr. (knee bruise) missed Tuesday’s game vs. the Bruins. U-M coach Dusty May said then it was too early to say if he’d play Sunday.
“Long-term health is priority No. 1 for us,” May said. “But I would say he’ll be back relatively soon.”
Gayle is one of five U-M players scoring in double figures for May in his first season in Ann Arbor. After putting up a career-high 36 points vs. the Bruins, center Vlad Goldin now leads the Wolverines at 15.8 points per game. Point guard Tre Donaldson (13.1 points) is next while Danny Wolf, Goldin’s frontcourt partner, averages a double-double at 12.5 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.
All three had standout games on the trip; Wolf started the L.A. double-dip becoming just the third NCAA player in more than 20 years with at least 20 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists and six blocks, and Donaldson made a career-high four 3-pointers vs. USC, then topped it with six vs. UCLA.
And then there’s Gayle (12.4 points) and Nimari Burnett (10.5 points), who are both shooting better than 50% from the floor. Every starter has led the team in scoring at least once this season, a major reason U-M leads the country in 2-point shooting (62%) and effective field goal percentage (60.2%).
“I mean numbers don’t lie,” Donaldson said. “We’re shooting over 60% inside the arc, I mean just continuing to do that. We got big guys out here … with Danny doing what he does in and out. It’s hard to guard. Nobody’s seen nothing like that before.”
Prediction for Michigan basketball vs. Washington
The Wolverines’ outlook is worlds away from a year ago, when it was often U-M on the wrong side of the talent and coaching ledger. U-M is better than Washington in every facet. As long as the Wolverines don’t have a horrendous shooting night, or commit an egregious number of turnovers (they’re 16th nationally, at 15.2 per game), they just have too much talent and depth for U-Dub to slow down. The pick: U-M 88, Washington 68.
Tony Garcia is the Michigan Wolverines beat writer for the Detroit Free Press. Email him at apgarcia@freepress.com and follow him on X at @RealTonyGarcia.
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