The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlands

The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlands

He is known for his concept of the ‘sponge city’, which first took off in China and was then adopted in countries from the US to Russia.

Well-known Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu died with three others after a plane crash in the vast and lush Brazilian wetlands near Paraguay and Bolivia.

SAO PAULO: Chinese architect Kongjian Yu, known for his so-called nature-mimicking “sponge cities,” has died in a small plane crash in Brazil with two filmmakers documenting his…