Spectators stand by and watch, on August 24, 1976, while Isamu Noguchi's sculpture "Portal" is being assembled on the Ontario Street plaza in front of the Justice Center. Controversial and misunderstood at first by the public, perhaps much like the design of the Justice Center itself, Portal has become a recognized, if not beloved, landmark in downtown Cleveland. For Noguchi, who was a second-generation Japanese-American, Portal represented the torii, a familiar skeletal gate built at the entrance to Shinto temples. | Source: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections
