Renowned ‘sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu dies in Brazil plane crash

<p>The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlands</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/21/turning-cities-into-sponges-how-chinese-ancient-wisdom-is-taking-on-climate-change">Kongjian Yu</a>, one of the world’s most famous landscape architects, has reportedly been killed in a plane crash in Brazil’sPantanal wetlands while making a film about his work.</p><p>Yu, 62, was flying to a ranch in Mato Grosso do Sul state, near Brazil’s western border with Paraguay and Bolivia, in a single-engine four-seater Cessna aircraft when the plane went down on Tuesday afternoon.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/architect-kongjian-yu-dies-brazil-plane-crash">Continue reading...</a>