Isamu Noguchi's Public Projects: Chronological 1933 MONUMENT TO THE PLOUGH (Unrealized) Triangular pyramid, one mile wide at each base. One side plowed, one planted, one left fallow. PLAY MOUNTAIN (Unrealized) New York City 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 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. 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 COURTYARD FOR LEVER BROTHERS BUILDING (Unrealized) Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill New York City. UNITED NATIONS PLAYGROUND (Unrealized) New York City. 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 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 1961-62 MISSISSIPPI FOUNTAIN Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Granite, 16 feet high. Kaig and Bestoff Building, New Orleans, Louisiana 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 1961-66 RIVERSIDE DRIVE PARK PLAYGROUND (Unrealized) Collaboration with Louis I. Kahn. Five different plans. Riverside Drive between West 101-103 Streets, New York City. 1964 GARDENS FOR IBM HEADQUARTERS Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Two gardens. Brazilian granite elements and painted cement elements. Armonk, New York 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 MOERE-NUMA KOEN 400-acre park with play sculpture Under construction Sapporo, Japan 1988-90 SLIDE MANTRA Black granite, over 10 feet high. Sapporo, Japan ******************************************************************************************** Isamu Noguchi's Public Projects: by Location France Paris GARDENS FOR UNESCO HEADQUARTERS (1956-58). Architect: Marcel Breuer. Germany Munich SCULPTURES, BAYERISCHE VEREINS BANK (1972). Computer Center, Bayerische Vereins Bank. India Raj-gat PARK AND MEMORIAL AT GANDHI'S BURIAL PLACE (1948, unrealized). Architect: Mayer and Whittlesey. New Delhi MEMORIAL ON 2500TH ANNIVERSARY OF BUDDHA'S PARANAMNIRVANA (1957, unrealized). Israel Jerusalem BILLY ROSE SCULPTURE GARDEN (1960-65). Israel Museum. Italy Bologna PIAZZA, FINANZIARIA FIERE DI BOLOGNA (1979- ). Architect: Kenzo Tange. Japan Hiroshima BELL TOWER FOR HIROSHIMA (1950, unrealized). HIROSHIMA BRIDGES (1951-52). Architect: Kenzo Tange. Peace Park. MEMORIAL TO THE DEAD OF HIROSHIMA (1952, unrealized). Architect: Kenzo Tange. Peace Park. Osaka U.S. PAVILION FOR EXPO '70 (1968, unrealized) EXPO '70 FOUNTAINS (1970). Takamatsu TIME AND SPACE (1988). Takamatsu Airport. Tokyo FACULTY ROOM AND GARDEN, SHIN BANRAISHA, KEIO UNIVERSITY (1951-52). Architect: Yoshiro Taniguchi. GARDEN AND FOUNTAIN FOR READER'S DIGEST BUILDING (1951, destroyed). Architect: Antonin Raymond. CHUO KORAN GALLERY (c.1952, destroyed). Interior design. SCULPTURE FOR MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, TOKYO (1966). Architect: Antonin Raymond. SUPREME COURT BUILDING FOUNTAINS (1974). HEAVEN (TENGOKU) (1977-78). Sogetsu Flower Arranging School. LIBERTY LIGHT SCULPTURE (1987, unrealized). Tokyo Bay. Sakata DOMON KEN MUSEUM GARDEN (1984). Architect: Yoshio Taniguchi. Sapporo SLIDE MANTRA (1988-90). MOERE-NUMA KOEN (1988-ongoing construction). Yokohama PLAYGROUND FOR "KODOMO NO KUNI" (CHILDREN'S DAY)(1965-66). Architect: Yoshio Otani. Mexico Mexico City HISTORY MEXICO (1936). Abelardo Rodriquez Market. United States Arizona Poston - PARK AND RECREATION AREA; CEMETERY (1942, unrealized). Colorado River Relocation Camp. California Berkeley - SCULPTURE GARDEN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARTS CENTER (1968, unrealized) Costa Mesa - CALIFORNIA SCENARIO (1980-82). Two Town Center, South Coast Plaza. Los Angeles - SWIMMING POOL FOR JOSEF VON STERNBERG (1935, unrealized). Architect: Richard Neutra. PLAZA FOR THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER, and TO THE ISSEI. (1980-83). Little Tokyo. Connecticut Bloomfield - GARDENS FOR CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, and THE FAMILY (1956-57). Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. New Haven - SUNKEN GARDEN FOR BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY (1960-64). Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Florida Miami - BAYFRONT PARK and CHALLENGER MONUMENT (1979-ongoing construction). West Palm Beach - TETRA, MIST FOUNTAIN (1974-76). IN Society of the Four Arts. Georgia Atlanta - PLAYSCAPES, PIEDMONT PARK (1975-76). Hawaii Honolulu - PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR ALA MOANA PARK (1939, unrealized). SKY GATE (1976-77) Honolulu Municipal Area. SCULPTURE FOR EAST - WEST CENTER (1976-77, unrealized) Elsewhere - SACRED ROCKS OF KUKANILOKO (1977, unrealized). Earthwork Illinois Chicago - FOUNTAINS, CELEBRATION OF THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC (1976-77). Art Institute of Chicago. Louisiana New Orleans - MISSISSIPPI FOUNTAIN (1961-62). Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. K & B Building. Massachusetts Cambridge - FOUNTAIN, EASTMAN COURT, MIT (1964, unrealized) Michigan Detroit - PHILIP A. HART PLAZA and HORACE E. DODGE FOUNTAIN (1972-79). Architects: Noguchi Fountain and Plaza, Inc. Associate architects: Smith, Hinchman and Grylls, Associates. Missouri Saint Louis - JEFFERSON MEMORIAL PARK (1945, unrealized). Architect: Edward Durrell Stone. SAMERICAN STOVE COMPANY BUILDING CEILING (1948). Architect: Armstrong Harris. Nebraska Omaha - FRIENDSHIP FOUNTAIN (1976, unrealized). Missouri River between Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa. New Jersey Hadden Heights - THE LETTER (1939-40). U.S. Post Office Building. New York Armonk - GARDENS FOR IBM HEADQUARTERS (1964). Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Mountainville - MOMO TARO (1977-78). Storm King Art Center. New York City - PLAY MOUNTAIN (1933, unrealized). FORD FOUNTAIN (CHASSIS FOUNTAIN) FOR WORLD'S FAIR (1938, destroyed). Flushing Meadows. ASSOCIATED PRESS BUILDING PLAQUE (NEWS) (1939-40). Rockefeller Center. CONTOURED PLAYGROUND (1941, unrealized). Proposal for Central Park. TIME-LIFE BUILDING CEILING (1947, destroyed). Time-Life Building (destroyed). Architect: Wallace K. Harrison. COURTYARD FOR LEVER BROTHERS BUILDING (1952, unrealized). Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. UNITED NATIONS PLAYGROUND (1952, unrealized). COMPOSITION FOR ARRIVALS BUILDING, IDLEWILD AIRPORT (1956-58, unrealized). 666 FIFTH AVENUE Lobby Ceiling and Waterfall Wall (1957). Architects: Carson and Lunden. PLAZA FOR ASTOR PLAZA BUILDING (1958, unrealized). Architects: Carson and Lunden. RIVERSIDE DRIVE PARK PLAYGROUND (1961-66, unrealized) Collaboration with Louis I. Kahn. Five plans. Riverside Drive between West 101-103 Streets. SUNKEN GARDEN FOR CHASE MANHATTAN BANK PLAZA (1961-64). Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. SCULPTURE FOR CHASE MANHATTAN BANK PLAZA (1961-64, unrealized). RED CUBE (1968). 140 Broadway (Marine Midland Bank Building). SHINTO (1974-75, destroyed). Bank of Tokyo Building. BENCH (c. 1977). Mount Sinai Hospital. UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (1979). Metropolitan Museum of Art. WATER STONE (1986). Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ohio Cleveland - PORTAL (1976). Cuyahoga Justice Center. ROCK CARVINGS: PASSAGE OF SEASONS (1980). Cleveland Museum of Art. Pennsylvania Philadelphia - MONUMENT TO BEN FRANKLIN (1933, unrealized). CARL MACKLEY MEMORIAL (1933, unrealized). BOLT OF LIGHTNING... MEMORIAL TO BEN FRANKLIN (1983-84). Foot of Ben Franklin Bridge. Texas Fort Worth - FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK PLAZA (1960-61). Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. CONSTELLATION (FOR LOUIS KAHN) (1980-83). Kimbell Art Museum. Houston - THE LILLIE AND HUGH ROY CULLEN SCULPTURE GARDEN (1978-86). Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Virginia Arlington - TOMB FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY (1964, unrealized). Architect: John Carl Warnecke. Washington Bellingham - SKYVIEWING SCULPTURE (1969). Western Washington State University. Seattle - BLACK SUN (1968). Seattle Art Museum (Volunteer Park). LANDSCAPE OF TIME (1975). Jackson Federal Building. Unsited: MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE THEATER (1976, unrealized).