Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu has been awarded the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize for his contributions to the field. Yu is the second recipient ...

Underpinning the project are the principles of the “sponge city” — a concept popularised by Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu that, over the past decade, has gained traction.

The Wujiang river in Zhejiang, Yu's home province, was recently revamped Yu Kongjian can remember the day he nearly died in the river. Swollen with rain, the White Sand Creek had flooded the rice ...

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The grounds of a former tobacco factory are now the 41-hectare (102-acre) Benjakitti Forest Park. Award-winning landscape architect Kongjian Yu, founder of Beijing-based firm Turenscape, has turned an ...

As the Chinese landscape architect Yu Kongjian has pointed out, it also suffocates the ecosystems – fertile soil, self-cleansing streams, storm-resisting mangrove swamps, flood-preventing ...

Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu coined a term for this: “sponge city.” Mr. Yu’s work involves large-scale parks and regional plans to apply this strategy at a metropolitan scale.

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And, speaking to Derek Yu, the person behind Spelunky, and the creator, along with a handful of collaborators, of the games in UFO 50, it sounds like it all began with memories too. "It really ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Kevin Yu made a 15-foot birdie on the 18th hole for a 5-under 67, and he birdied it again from six feet in a playoff to beat Beau Hossler and win the Sanderson Farms ...