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Isamu Noguchi's 'Red Cube' sculpture provides a stylish and stylised backdrop for my scaly buddy 'Komos'.
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In front of the Marine Midland Building at 140 Broadway (Liberty & Broadway), Lower Manhattan.
Sunday November 6th 2016.
Horace E. Dodge and Son Memorial Fountain
Isamu Noguchi
Detroit, MI - 1981
Mamiya M645
Sekor C 110mm f/2.8
Adox CMS 20 II
Known locally as The Doughnut and the subject of a 2004 US Postage Stamp. When you look through the hole you see Downtown Seattle including the Space Needle.
Armstrong collaborated with sculptor Isamu Noguchi in the design of this ceiling. Noguchi built a scale model of the ceiling based on Armstrong's architectural plans. You can see the final model hanging in Armstrong's office following the completion of the project's construction.
The ceiling design incorporated hidden lighting elements and various painting surfaces. While the model was kept on-site for reference by the union plasterers who erected the lath required to form the ceiling, Armstrong created detailed cross sections in both directions to make it possible for measurements and profiles to be determined and followed accurately.
You can find blog entries specifically addressing the Magic Chef Building here.
project: Magic Chef Building
location: South Kingshighway, Saint Louis, Missouri
architect: Harris Armstrong
date: 1946
condition: significantly modified
For more on Armstrong, see my blog architectural ruminations.
Photograph courtesy of the Harris Armstrong Archives, Special Collections, Washington University in Saint Louis.
Isamu Noguchi, 1967, near HSBC Building, Financial District, Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, sculpture. Photo 5 of 5.
Isamu Noguchi's low-relief panel, News has soared above the entrance to the Associated Press Building, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, since its installation on April 29, 1940. Symbolizing the business of its former tenant, the Associated Press, this cast stainless steel Art Deco plaque depicts five journalists "getting a scoop"--the reporter with his pad, the newsman on the phone, the reporter typing out a story, the photographing recording events, and the newsman hearing the news as it comes in on the wire. The Associated Press' wordwide network is symbolized by diagonal radiating lines extending across the plaque.
Isamu Noguchi won a nationwide invitational competition in 1939 with this 22 foot high by 17 foot wide, 10-ton cast relief, using intense angles and smooth planes to emote the fast fassed environment of the newsroom in what was the first heoric-sized sculpture ever cast in stainless steel. Noguchi cast the piece in nine parts, but they were joined seamlessly so the naked eye could never detect.
Los Angeles born Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, 1904-1988) was a sculptor, theatrical and industrial designer best known for his abstract works and set designs for Martha Graham productions. News was one of his last figurative works, and the only time he employed stainless steel as an artistic medium. His work can be found throughout major metropolitan cities, in museums, and in the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City in New York. Noguchi's work around New York includes the Sunken Garden for Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza and Red Cube in Helmsley Plaza. His Thunder Rock was also temporarily on display in Rockefeller Plaza.
Rockefeller Center was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1985.
In 2007, Rockefeller Center was ranked #56 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Rockefeller Center National Register #87002591
"Red Cube" by Isamu Noguchi (1968). Red painted steel, located at 140 Broadway in front of the former HSBC high-rise designed by Skidmore Owings Merrill (completed 1967). The building now accommodates the oldest and largest private bank in the United States.
I cannot think of a more appropriate icon for global finance in the light of the 2008 financial crisis. And at the very heart of global finance it is, just around the corner of Wall St.
This is part of the Horace Dodge and Son Memorial fountain in the Hart Plaza area of Detroit on the riverwalk. It was designed by Isamu Noguchi and Walter Budd in 1978. Hart Plaza was named for the Senator Philip Hart and opened in 1975. It has a capacity to hold upwards of 40,000 people.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
"Cube" sculpture by Isamu Noguchi.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
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Isamu Noguchi's Sunken Garden is situated in the open plaza in front of the Chase Manhattan Bank building. The base of the garden is set one story below street level in a circular space cut out from the plaza. This opening in the plaza is bordered on top by a metal railing, allowing viewers to stand comfortably at the edge and look into the sculpted space below. The space is surrounded on all sides by floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing the garden to be seen from the inside, and opening up the lower level of the building to the outdoors.
The "ground" of the garden is made up of small, light-colored stone bricks. The surface slopes gently, creating a series of low hills and valleys topped by seven black boulders of varying sizes that Noguchi collected from the bottom of the Uji River in Kyoto, Japan. The sloping of the surface is accentuated by the organization of the bricks, which circle around to show the contours of the ground. The lines from the bricks also serve to draw attention to the boulders, which are located on the highest points of the ground.
In the winter, Sunken Garden is dry. In the summer months, the garden turns into a fountain, with water spouting into the air, and flowing across the ground before disappearing around the edges of the space. Because of the variations in the level of the brick surface, some of the boulders are partly submerged, while others stand on dry ground, with water lapping around them.
Noguchi drew on the concept of Japanese Zen meditation gardens in his creation of Sunken Garden. As with these gardens, the viewer is not meant to enter Sunken Garden, but rather looks in from the outside. Additionally, the lines formed by the placement of the light-colored bricks are reminiscent of the raked sand found in Japanese gardens.
Although Noguchi found inspiration for Sunken Garden in traditional Japanese gardens, in particular the garden at the Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto, Noguchi veered from tradition in many aspects of his design. Noguchi comments, "...I have never been interested in doing a Japanese garden per se." Instead, Noguchi chose what he wanted to include from among the many rules governing the design of Japanese gardens, and adjusted the rest to fit his needs. In describing some of his choices in Sunken Garden, Noguchi writes, "I had said that in the West the ideal was to triumph over gravity, and that in doing a rock garden in America it would be logical to have the rocks themselves levitate..." This is especially true of Sunken Garden in the summer time, when water flows across the surface of the ground except at the highest points, where the boulders are placed. Noguchi also combines eastern and western traditions in his inclusion of the European-style fountain in the garden.
Los Angeles born Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, 1904-1988) was a sculptor, theatrical and industrial designer best known for his abstract works and set designs for MArtha Graham productions. News was one of his last figurative works, and the only time he employed stainless steel as an artistic medium. His work can be found throughout major metropolitan cities, in museums, and in the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City in New York. Noguchi's work around New York includes the Red Cube in Helmsley Plaza and News at the Associated Press Building His Thunder Rock was also temporarily on display in Rockefeller Plaza.
A partir de 1951, l’artiste et créateur nippo-américain Isamu Noguchi a créé les sculptures lumineuses Akari, au total plus de 100 modèles de lampes de table, lampadaires ou plafonniers, fabriqués à la main en papier de Shoji. ll donne à ses lampes le nom d'akari, qui est le terme japonais utilisé pour exprimer la clarté ou la lumière, tout en suggérant aussi une idée de légèreté. Collection Vitra Design Museum.
Part of the decoration above the door to the Associated Press Building in the Rockefeller Center, New York City.
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Mostly finished living room. Pair of Herman Miller Eames LCW,Eames Lounge and Ottoman, Isamu Noguchi, Le Corbusier LC4 (in background), and wall of George Nelson Vitra clocks.
This article is by: Gabriela Enamorado and Angela Abdala - November 3, 2020
As a result of the Challenger tragedy, memorials were built across the United States. The grandest and most celebrated was designed by famed Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who died a few weeks before the memorial was officially unveiled on December 30, 1988, without seeing his work completed. The double helix-shaped steel and granite sculpture firmly stands in the southwest corner of Bayfront Park in Miami.
Led by famed newscaster Ralph Renick, Miamians joined perpetual maintenance to create the memorial in honor of the seven crew members, including Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who had been chosen from more than 11,000 applicants to be the first civilian in space.
Why a memorial in Miami? As local historian Professor Paul George said, “A city in Florida needed to do a beautiful, serious memorial to that tragedy in January 1986 because we’re the state that kind of birthed the whole space thing in the United States and beyond. And that’s exactly why Renick thought it would be important to pay tribute to those lives we lost.”
The memorial was funded by donations from Miami-Dade schoolchildren and their families, and the trust fund of Lamar Louise Curry, a social studies Miami Senior High School teacher who made many contributions to Miami. Besides being an only child and never getting married, Lamar inherited from her father a lot of real estate in the Florida Keys and in Miami. She had a lot of love for Miami and its people.
As Paul George said, “she had the time and the desire to help the community and so she had to be one of the moving forces for the idea”. And that’s exactly what she did.
Lamar’s fund along with the donations covers the expenses of the white granite monument that stands at 100 feet, its grassy green garden with several flowers surrounding it, and a stone triangle that lies in front of the sculpture that bears the last names of the victims and a poem dedicated to them.
Although the work of art was built with great precision and dedication, and cost $250,000, (about $790,000 in 2020), skateboarders in Miami have not given it the respect it deserves.
“It was a place where skateboarders liked to skateboard,” said Timothy Schmand, former Executive Director at Bayfront Park Management Trust. “So they would come off the monument and then hit that triangle with their skateboard.”
To this day, the sculpture requires repainting every four to five years. The garden surrounding it needs perpetual maintenance.
Almost three and a half decades after the tragedy, Bayfront Park continues to display a wonderful piece of art in honor of the seven crew members who perished in the accident.
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Sculptor: Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, 1904-1988, USA). Bronze, cast 1963. Barbican Art Gallery exhibition, City of London.
Ink, gold gel pen, and water soluable graphite on location at 50 Rockefeller Plaza in NYC with the New York Urban Sketchers.
Noguchi was a famous artist and landscape architect, as well as being really well known for his mid century modern furniture. He was comissioned to do this bas relief sculpture for the building facade of what was once known as the Associated Press Building in the 30's. This is 10 tons of stainless steel. It is the largest stainless steel sculpture in the world.
He depicted five newsmen getting the scoop by camera, wire, telephone, teletype, and pen and paper. I think that if he did this today he would have to add a lot more devices!
Although there are more famous sculptures at Rock Plaza, this one is my favorite.
In 1969 Isamu Noguchi decided to locate Skyviewing Sculpture in the centre of Red Square where Miller Hall is located. He designed the sculpture in the shape of a black cube, tilted, with cutouts on three sides. The 12,000 pound steel sculpture rests its three points lightly on brick piers appearing weightless. The top point rises towards the clouds.
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