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Research and Resources - Isamu Noguchi's Public Projects
Isamu Noguchi's Public Projects by Date

1933 MONUMENT TO THE PLOUGH (Unrealized)
Triangular pyramid, one mile wide at each base.
One side plowed, one planted, one left fallow.
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  PLAY MOUNTAIN (Unrealized)
New York City

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  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.

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1938 FORD FOUNTAIN (CHASSIS FOUNTAIN) FOR WORLDS FAIR
Magnesite.  Size unknown. Destroyed.
Flushing Meadows, New York

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1939 PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR ALA MOANA PARK (Unrealized)
Honolulu, Hawaii

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1939-40 ASSOCIATED PRESS BUILDING PLAQUE
Stainless steel casting.  20 x 17 feet.
Winner of Associated Press Building sculpture competition.
Rockefeller Center, New York.

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1941 CONTOURED PLAYGROUND (Unrealized)
Proposal for Central Park
New York City

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1942 PARK AND RECREATION AREA; and CEMETERY (Unrealized)
Colorado River relocation Camp for Japanese-Americans.
Poston, Arizona.

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1943 THIS TORTURED EARTH (Unrealized)
Earthwork.
1945 JEFFERSON MEMORIAL PARK (Unrealized)
Architect: Edward Durrell Stone.
St. Louis, Missouri.

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1947 SCULPTURE TO BE SEEN FROM MARS (Unrealized)
Earthwork

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  TIME-LIFE BUILDING CEILING
Architect: Wallace K. Harrison.
Time-Life Building (destroyed), New York City.

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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.

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1950 BELL TOWER FOR HIROSHIMA (Unrealized)
Hiroshima, Japan.

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1951-52 FACULTY ROOM AND GARDEN, SHIN BANRAISHA, KEIO UNIVERSITY
Architect: Yoshiro Taniguchi
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

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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")

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B. Yuku ("to depart") (originally Shinu,"to die")

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Hirosima, Japan

1952 MEMORIAL TO THE DEAD OF HIROSHIMA (Unrealized)
Architect: Kenzo Tange
Hiroshima, Japan

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  COURTYARD FOR LEVER BROTHERS BUILDING (Unrealized)
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
New York City.

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  UNITED NATIONS PLAYGROUND (Unrealized)
New York City.

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  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

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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

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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

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1960-65 BILLY ROSE SCULPTURE GARDEN
5 acre site.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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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

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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.

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1964 GARDENS FOR IBM HEADQUARTERS
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Two gardens.  Brazilian granite elements and painted cement elements.
Armonk, New York

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  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.

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1968 RED CUBE
Red painted steel.  24 feet high.
140 Broadway (Marine Midland Bank Building), New York City

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1969 BLACK SUN
Black Brazilian granite.  108 inches in diameter.
Seattle Art Museum (Volunteer Park), Seattle, Washington.

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  SKYVIEWING SCULPTURE
Black painted steel.  Western Washington State College
Bellingham, Washington

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1970 EXPO 70 FOUNTAINS
Nine stainless steel fountains
Osaka, Japan.

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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

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1974-76 INTETRA, MIST FOUNTAIN
Tetrahedral internal mist fountain.  Stainless steel, 24 x 18 feet.
Society of the Four Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida

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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.

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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

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1976 PORTAL
Steel Pipe.  35 x 40 feet.
Cuyahoga Justice Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

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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.

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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.

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  MOMO TARO
Granite.  9 elements.
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York

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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.

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  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.

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1980-83 CONSTELLATION (FOR LOUIS KAHN)
Basalt.  4 elements.  100 x 100 feet.
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

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  PLAZA FOR THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER.
Plaza with sculpture To the Issei (basalt, 2 elements).
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.

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1983-84 BOLT OF LIGHTNING... MEMORIAL TO BEN FRANKLIN
Stainless steel.  101-1/2 feet high.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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1984 DOMON KEN MUSEUM GARDEN
Interior garden with sculpture.  30 x 36 feet.  Granite steps with water
cascading into the lake.
Sakata, Japan

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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

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