Legendary “Sponge city” architect Kongjian Yu dies in Brazilian plane crash
Kongjian Yu, the 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect renowned for pioneering the “sponge city” concept, tragically died in a plane crash in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands on Tuesday. The single-engine Cessna aircraft, a four-seater, went down in Mato Grosso do Sul state, near Brazil’s western border with Paraguay and Bolivia, while Yu and his companions were en…