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Research and Resources - Isamu Noguchi's Public Projects

Isamu Noguchi's Public Projects by Location

FRANCE

Paris

GARDENS FOR UNESCO HEADQUARTERS (1956-58).
Architect: Marcel Breuer.
Photo

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.
Photo

ITALY

Bologna

PIAZZA, FINANZIARIA FIERE DI BOLOGNA (1979- ).
Architect: Kenzo Tange.

JAPAN

Hiroshima

BELL TOWER FOR HIROSHIMA (1950, unrealized).
Photo

HIROSHIMA BRIDGES (1951-52).
Architect: Kenzo Tange.
Peace Park. Photo:1, Photo:2

MEMORIAL TO THE DEAD OF HIROSHIMA (1952, unrealized).
Architect: Kenzo Tange.
Peace Park.
Photo

Osaka

U.S. PAVILION FOR EXPO '70 (1968, unrealized)

EXPO '70 FOUNTAINS (1970).
Photo

Takamatsu

TIME AND SPACE (1988).
Takamatsu Airport.

Tokyo

FACULTY ROOM AND GARDEN, SHIN BANRAISHA, KEIO UNIVERSITY (1951-52).
Architect: Yoshiro Taniguchi.
Photo

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.
Photo


SUPREME COURT BUILDING FOUNTAINS (1974).

HEAVEN (TENGOKU) (1977-78).
Sogetsu Flower Arranging School.
Photo

LIBERTY LIGHT SCULPTURE (1987, unrealized).
Tokyo Bay.

Sakata

DOMON KEN MUSEUM GARDEN (1984).
Architect: Yoshio Taniguchi.
Photo 1
Photo 2

Sapporo

SLIDE MANTRA (1988-90).
Photo

MOERE-NUMA KOEN (1988-2005).

Yokohama

PLAYGROUND FOR "KODOMO NO KUNI" (CHILDREN'S DAY)(1965-66).
Architect: Yoshio Otani.

MEXICO

Mexico City

HISTORY MEXICO (1936).
Abelardo Rodriquez Market.
Photo

UNITED STATES

Arizona

Poston

PARK AND RECREATION AREA; CEMETERY (1942, unrealized).
Colorado River Relocation Camp.
Photo

California

Berkeley

SCULPTURE GARDEN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARTS CENTER (1968, unrealized)

Costa Mesa

CALIFORNIA SCENARIO (1980-82).
Two Town Center, South Coast Plaza.
Photo

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.
Photo 

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).
Photo

West Palm Beach

TETRA, MIST FOUNTAIN (1974-76).
IN Society of the Four Arts.
Photo 

Georgia

Atlanta

PLAYSCAPES, PIEDMONT PARK (1975-76).
Photo 

Hawaii

Honolulu

PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR ALA MOANA PARK (1939, unrealized).
Photo

SKY GATE (1976-77)
Honolulu Municipal Area.
Photo

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.
Photo
 

Missouri

Saint Louis

JEFFERSON MEMORIAL PARK (1945, unrealized).
Architect: Edward Durrell Stone.
Photo


AMERICAN STOVE COMPANY BUILDING CEILING (1948).
Architect: Armstrong Harris.
Photo

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.
Photo:1
Photo:2

Mountainville

MOMO TARO (1977-78).
Storm King Art Center.
Photo

New York City

PLAY MOUNTAIN (1933, unrealized).

FORD FOUNTAIN (CHASSIS FOUNTAIN) FOR WORLD'S FAIR (1938, destroyed).
Flushing Meadows.
Photo

ASSOCIATED PRESS BUILDING PLAQUE (NEWS) (1939-40).
Rockefeller Center.
Photo

CONTOURED PLAYGROUND (1941, unrealized).
Proposal for Central Park.
Photo

TIME-LIFE BUILDING CEILING (1947, destroyed).
Time-Life Building (destroyed).
Architect: Wallace K. Harrison.
Photo

COURTYARD FOR LEVER BROTHERS BUILDING (1952, unrealized).
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Photo

UNITED NATIONS PLAYGROUND (1952, unrealized).
Photo

COMPOSITION FOR ARRIVALS BUILDING, IDLEWILD AIRPORT (1956-58, unrealized).

666 FIFTH AVENUE
Lobby Ceiling and Waterfall Wall (1957).
Architects: Carson and Lunden.
Photo

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.
Photo

SUNKEN GARDEN FOR CHASE MANHATTAN BANK PLAZA (1961-64).
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Photo

SCULPTURE FOR CHASE MANHATTAN BANK PLAZA (1961-64, unrealized).

RED CUBE (1968).
140 Broadway (Marine Midland Bank Building).
Photo

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.
Photo

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.
Photo

Texas

Fort Worth

FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK PLAZA (1960-61).
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Fort Worth - CONSTELLATION (FOR LOUIS KAHN) (1980-83).
Kimbell Art Museum.
Photo

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.
Photo

Seattle

BLACK SUN (1968).
Seattle Art Museum (Volunteer Park).
Photo

LANDSCAPE OF TIME (1975).
Jackson Federal Building.
Photo

Unsited:

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE THEATER (1976, unrealized).

 



 

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