The design and history of park are both very interesting. The park was designed by one guy, Isamu Noguchi, a Japanese American artist. The artist started working on the park in 1988, but died in 1989. He had already completed a model and a master plan, so I guess the builders just went with that. In his design, the entire park should be thought of as a sculpture. It certainly felt like it.
Prior to becoming a park, the area was a a garbage dump on top of a marsh. The city started reclaiming the land in 1982, and started constructing the park in 1990. It didn't open completely until 2005.
There are pyramids everywhere in the park. Anton said that even though he'd been there many times, he was still finding new pyramids he hasn't seen before.
Here are Kyle's pictures of the park.
This picture is from the top of one of the man-made hills in the park, looking at the famous glass semi-pyramid called "Hidamari".
How many pyramids can you see in this picture?
Sapporo is in the distance.
Looking to the east
Looking to the west.
From the man-made earth pyramid, looking towards the man-made hill that the panoramas above were taken from.
That's all for now. More adventures to come next weekend.
-Bre (and Kyle)
The park looks great. I wonder why the artist decided to use some nice molecular models for the park? He may have thought of them as pyramids but the chemists know better. Most look like organometallic compounds of iron carbonyl.
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