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Famed ‘sponge cities’ Chinese architect dead in Brazil plane crash
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 work, police said Wednesday. The 62-year-old was considered a leading figure in sustainable urban planning; his “sponge cities” replacing concrete surfaces with natural features that better absorb water in flood situations.
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theguardian.com
Renowned ‘sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu dies in Brazil plane crash
The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlands
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scmp.com
Chinese architect and Peking Univesity professor Yu Kongjian dies in plane crash
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.
