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Architects' Journal (UK)
Sponge city pioneer Kongjian Yu died in September at the age of 62.
The professor at Beijing University and founder of landscape architecture practice Turenscape received the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize in recognition of his work developing the sponge city concept for mitigating urban flooding and augmenting urban climate resilience.