Turenscape reimagines an urban dumping ground in Nanachang In the city of Nanchang, within the Yangtze River flood plain in east-central China, the architecture firm Turenscape transformed a disused 126-acre waterscape into a dreamlike floating forest.Its name is FishTail Park.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has awarded Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.

Kongjian Yu was only 10 years old when he witnessed the power of nature firsthand. Heavy rain caused the creek near his village in China’s Zhejiang province to swell and spill over to the rice terraces. When he ran to the river’s edge in excitement, he slipped into the surging floodwaters. Fortunately, he was able to save himself by grabbing onto the willow and reed vegetation that grew all along the banks.

After a summer of deadly floods in Beijing, oppressive heat waves in Shanghai, and intense rainstorms in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China’s biggest cities are grappling with urban planning in a new climate reality.

The Impact of Transforming China's Urban Centers Into Sponge Cities

BEIJING (AP) — To cushion the impact of extreme weather due to climate change, a Chinese landscape architect has been making the case for China and other countries to create so-called “sponge cities.

Our relationship with water has been thrown fatally off balance in many parts of the world this year.

China is re-engineering old cities and designing new ones to accept, rather than fight, natural water flows in a vast project spearheaded by ‘water detectives’