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Isamu Noguchi's Public Projects 1933 MONUMENT TO THE PLOUGH (Unrealized) Triangular pyramid, one mile wide at each base. One side plowed, one planted, one left fallow.
1933 PLAY MOUNTAIN (Unrealized) New York City
1933 MOMUMENT TO BEN FRANKLIN (Unrealized) Proposal for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1935 SWIMMING POOL FOR JOSEF VON STERNBERG (Unrealized) Architect: Richard Neutra Los Angeles, California
1936 HISTORY MEXICO Cement with pigment. 22 meters long. Abelardo Rodriquez Market, Mexico City, Mexico.
1938 FORD FOUNTAIN (CHASSIS FOUNTAIN) FOR WORLDS FAIR Magnesite. Size unknown. Destroyed. Flushing Meadows, New York 1939 PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR ALA MOANA PARK (Unrealized) Honolulu, Hawaii
1939-40 ASSOCIATED PRESS BUILDING PLAQUE Stainless steel casting. 20 x 17 feet. Winner of Associated Press Building sculpture competition. Rockefeller Center, New York.
1941 CONTOURED PLAYGROUND (Unrealized) Proposal for Central Park New York City
1942 PARK AND RECREATION AREA; and CEMETERY (Unrealized) Colorado River relocation Camp for Japanese-Americans. Poston, Arizona.
1943 THIS TORTURED EARTH (Unrealized) Earthwork.
1945 JEFFERSON MEMORIAL PARK (Unrealized) Architect: Edward Durrell Stone. St. Louis, Missouri.
1947 SCULPTURE TO BE SEEN FROM MARS (Unrealized) Earthwork
1947 TIME-LIFE BUILDING CEILING Architect: Wallace K. Harrison. Time-Life Building (destroyed), New York City.
1948 PARK AND MEMORIAL AT GANDHI'S BURIAL PLACE (Unrealized) Architect: Mayer and Whittlesey. Raj-gat, India.
1948 AMERICAN STOVE COMPANY BUILDING CEILING Architect: Armstrong Harris American Stove Company Building, St. Louis, Missouri.
1950 BELL TOWER FOR HIROSHIMA (Unrealized) Hiroshima, Japan.
1951-52 FACULTY ROOM AND GARDEN, SHIN BANRAISHA, KEIO UNIVERSITY Architect: Yoshiro Taniguchi Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
1951 GARDEN AND FOUNTAIN FOR READERS DIGEST BUILDING Architect: Antonin Raymond Fountain: Iron, 186 x 58 inches, now collection of Macalester College. Garden destroyed. Tokyo, Japan.
1951-52 HIROSHIMA BRIDGES Concrete. Two bridge railings. Architect: Kenzo Tange A. Tsukuru ("to build") (originally Ikiru, "to live) B. Yuku ("to depart") (originally Shinu, "to die") Hiroshima, Japan
1952 MEMORIAL TO THE DEAD OF HIROSHIMA (Unrealized) Architect: Kenzo Tange Hiroshima, Japan
1952 COURTYARD FOR LEVER BROTHERS BUILDING (Unrealized) Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill New York City.
1952 UNITED NATIONS PLAYGROUND (Unrealized) New York City. c.1952 CHUO KORAN GALLERY Complete interior design Tokyo, Japan.
1956-57 GARDENS FOR CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Four gardens. Sculpture: The Family, Stony Creek granite, 3 elements, 16 x 12 x 6 feet. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (CIGNA) Bloomfield, Connecticut.
1956-58 GARDENS FOR UNESCO Architect: Marcel Breuer. Jardin Japonais and Patio des Delegues UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
1957 MEMORIAL ON 2500TH ANNIVERSARY OF BUDDHAS PARANAMNIRVANA (Unrealized) New Delhi, India
1957 666 FIFTH AVENUE Lobby Ceiling and Waterfall Wall Architects: Carson and Lunden. Ceiling: Aluminum louvers. Waterfall wall: Stainless steel louvers, 12 feet high. New York City
1960-61 FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK PLAZA, FORT WORTH PLAZA Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Three Tsukuba granite elements, 20 x 12 x 6 feet high Fort Worth, Texas
1960-64 SUNKEN GARDEN FOR BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Marble Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1960-65 BILLY ROSE SCULPTURE GARDEN 5 acre site. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1961-66 RIVERSIDE DRIVE PARK PLAYGROUND (Unrealized) Collaboration with Louis I. Kahn. Five different plans. Riverside Drive between West 101-103 Streets, New York City.
1961-64 SUNKEN GARDEN FOR CHASE MANHATTAN BANK PLAZA Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Black river stone, granite paving. Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza, New York City
1961-62 MISSISSIPPI FOUNTAIN Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Granite, 16 feet high. Kaig and Bestoff Building, New Orleans, Louisiana
1964 GARDENS FOR IBM HEADQUARTERS Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Two gardens. Brazilian granite elements and painted cement elements. Armonk, New York
1964 TOMB FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY (Unrealized) Architect: John Carl Warnecke Washington, DC
1965-66 PLAYGROUND FOR "KODOMO NO KUNI" (CHILDRENS DAY) Architect: Yoshio Otani. Yokohama, Japan
1966 SCULPTURE FOR MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, TOKYO Painted steel. Tokyo, Japan.
1968 RED CUBE Red painted steel. 24 feet high. 140 Broadway (Marine Midland Bank Building), New York City
1969 BLACK SUN Black Brazilian granite. 108 inches in diameter. Seattle Art Museum (Volunteer Park), Seattle, Washington.
1969 SKYVIEWING SCULPTURE Black painted steel. Western Washington State College Bellingham, Washington
1970 EXPO 70 FOUNTAINS Nine stainless steel fountains Osaka, Japan.
1972 SCULPTURES, BAYERISCHE VEREINS BANK Two elements. Black and white granite, and aluminum. Granite cube tetrahedron measures 16 feet each side. Aluminum cubic tetrahedron measures 8 feet each side. Computer Center, Bayerische Vereins Bank, Munich, Germany
1972-79 PHILIP A. HART PLAZA and HORACE E. DODGE FOUNTAIN Architects: Noguchi Fountain and Plaza, Inc. Associate architects: Smith, Hinchman and Grylls, Associates Eight-acre plaza with 30 foot high stainless steel fountain and 120 foot high pylon. Detroit, Michigan
1974-76 INTETRA, MIST FOUNTAIN Tetrahedral internal mist fountain. Stainless steel, 24 x 18 feet. Society of the Four Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
1974 SUPREME COURT BUILDING FOUNTAINS Six fountains. Granite. Supreme Court Building, Tokyo, Japan
1975 LANDSCAPE OF TIME Granite. Five elements. Jackson Federal Building, Seattle, Washington.
1974-75 SHINTO Aluminum. 17 feet long. Bank of Tokyo Building, New York. (Destroyed April 1980)
1975-76 PLAYSCAPES, PIEDMONT PARK Playground with play sculpture Atlanta, Georgia
1976 PORTAL Steel Pipe. 35 x 40 feet. Cuyahoga Justice Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
1976-77 FOUNTAINS, CELEBRATION OF THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC, ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. Granite and stainless steel. Two elements. 40 x 40 feet. Collection: Ferguson Monument Fund. Chicago, Illinois.
1976-77 SKY GATE Painted steel. 24 feet high Honolulu, Hawaii.
1977 SACRED ROCKS OF KUKANILOKO (Unrealized) Earthwork. Hawaii
1977-78 HEAVEN (TENGOKU), SOGETSU FLOWER ARRANGING SCHOOL Interior garden and granite pylon. Sogetsu Flower Arranging School, Tokyo, Japan.
1977-78 MOMO TARO Granite. 9 elements. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
1978-86 THE LILLIE and HUGH ROY CULLEN SCULPTURE GARDEN Sculpture garden for Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas
1979 BAYFRONT PARK 28 acre site, with Challenger Monument Under construction Miami, Florida.
1979 PIAZZA, FINANZIARIA FIERE DI BOLOGNA Architect: Kenzo Tange Pedestrian plaza, unfinished Bologna, Italy.
1980-82 CALIFORNIA SCENARIO 2 acre site at Two Town Center, South Coast Plaza. Garden includes 3 fountains and The Spirit of the Lima Bean (granite, 12 feet high) Costa Mesa, California.
1980-83 CONSTELLATION (FOR LOUIS KAHN) Basalt. 4 elements. 100 x 100 feet. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
1980-83 PLAZA FOR THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER. Plaza with sculpture To the Issei (basalt, 2 elements). Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.
1983-84 BOLT OF LIGHTNING... MEMORIAL TO BEN FRANKLIN Stainless steel. 101-1/2 feet high. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984 DOMON KEN MUSEUM GARDEN Interior garden with sculpture. 30 x 36 feet. Granite steps with water cascading into the lake. Sakata, Japan
1988-90 SLIDE MANTRA Black granite, over 10 feet high. Sapporo, Japan
1988 MOERE-NUMA KOEN 400-acre park with play sculpture Under construction Sapporo, Japan |
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