●Urban Park Contest Construction Minister’s
Awards in park facility construction category1998
Contest Sponsor:Parks and Open Space Association of Japan
●Japan Association Of Artists Craftsman & Architects Prize
1998
Awarder:Japan Association Artists, Craftsmen and Architects
●Simultaneous Winning of Grand Prix/ Gold Prize of Good Design Awards
2002
Awarder:Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization
[Reason for Award]
The municipal administration of Sapporo, as implementing body for the construction of the city’s largest comprehensive park being undertaken in the northeastern district of the city, was highly evaluated for its skills as a producer and its indefatigable enthusiasm for regenerating a waste dumps site fraught with complex issues of negative connotation into a park on a noble scale welcomed by the residents in the area and the people visiting there --- a project that would never have been possible without the creative vision and talent of one artist and the commitment of the people concerned.
●City Landscape Award
2003
Awarder:The City of Sapporo
●Hokkaido Architecture Prizes Jury’s Special Award
2003
Awarder:Architectural Institute of Japan, Hokkaido Chapter
[Object of Award] :Glass Pyramid
[Reason for Award]
Perhaps architecture shines truly at the moment when it causes certain excitement in us with the way it encompasses the society inclusive of the environment, to which it belongs, and the people carrying out vibrant activity therein. At the sight of Isamu Noguchi’s notion of designing architecture for “future generations” being realized, we can tell that such future-oriented power is what the modern society wants to find in architecture. Congregations of new people will create new landscapes. The new direction of architecture pointed by this work of Noguchi’s definitely deserves proper recognition.
●The 17th Hokkaido Redbrick Architecture Award
2004
Awarder:Hokkaido Prefecture
[Object of Award]:Glass Pyramid
[Reason for Award]
Despite the difficult situation where ‘architecturization’ of a ‘preliminarily determined form’ as part of a grand scale design is prone to a passive stance, this piece of work has attained an impressive level or refinement as architecture. Both the ability of the architects who succeeded in patiently incorporating every specification unique to architecture with the late sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s creative intent in mind, and the technical capabilities of the constructor who fulfilled the plan are highly commended.
The award-winning work represents a good instance of successful collaboration between art, or landscape design, and architecture. Also, the concept of converting a waste dump into a recreational park is of great contemporary significance.
●JSURP Hokkaido chapter Award
2006
Awarder:Japan Society of Urban and Regional Planners (NPO)
[Object of Award]:The co-management arrangement under which the local government and local people cooperate in managing Moerenuma Park.
●National Urban Renewal Community Development Conference “Community Development Prize”
2006
Awarder:National Urban Renewal Community Development Conference
[Object of Award]:The activities of the “Society for Better Utilization of Moerenuma Park”.
●Japan Society of Civil Engineers Design Awards 2007, “Grand Prix”
2007
Awarder:Japan Society of Civil Engineers
[Reason for Award]
This park is a posthumous work of Isamu Noguchi and, at the same time, regarded as marking a culmination of public art. The grand sculpture space of this park, which can be termed “land art”, exhibits a reality that appeals to our sentiment strongly and straightforward, while being successful in expressing itself in high artistic quality. Resting against the exquisite scale sensibility, the diverse significations and simple forms found in the park appear to reverberate amenably through the climate of Hokkaido and the disposition of the people living there.
●Japan Creation Award “Environmental Art Prize”
2007
Awarder:Japan Fashion Association
[Reason for Award]
The prize award was granted to laud the park construction project, spearheaded by the visions of sculptor Isamu Noguchi and undertaken by many zestful organizations and people who had taken over his aspirations of realizing them, to regenerate a wide expanse of refuse dump into a place of recreation and relaxation for the citizens of Sapporo City, as well as the cooperative efforts of the private sector and the local government to maintain the irreplaceable value of the park to be inherited by the next generation.
●The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan 2008
Awarder:Architectural Institute of Japan
[Object of Award]:The 17 years of sustained activities to realize Sapporo City’s Moerenuma Park