Healing the world's cities

In mid-July, floodwater submerged the city of Zhengzhou, in China's central Henan province. A year's worth of rain poured down on the city streets over just three days. The cloudburst overwhelmed Zhengzhou's flood defenses, washed away cars, swamped ground-floor shops, and inundated the subway transit line. Over 300 people died in the deluge.

How the Chinese Communist Party is building an “ecological civilization.”

Site layout The building is located on one of the north gentle slope of the main canal of the Red Flag Canal Grand. To the south, visitors can see the first main canal closely and overlooking the entire grand area. To the east, visitors can see the diversion gate and the old memorial hall. Building volume and function The volume of the memorial hall is an abstract of the shape of the Red Flag Canal. The form is a single curve, which grows from the slope, facing the main entrance o...

1．Project Statement The site of Handan Garden Expo 2020 is located in the Fuxing District, at the west of Handan City. It covers an area of 295 hectares. To the east is the West Ring Road, and the South-to-North Water Transfer Project forms its west boundary. There are two urban expressways to the north and south. The location of Handan Expo is 11 kilometers away from Handan Airport and 12.5 kilometers away from Handan East Station, which provides a convenient transportation and advantageou...

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At a virtual award’s ceremony on 8th October 2020, IFLA President James Hayter announced Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu as the winner of the 2020 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award.

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Wulijie new town is 10 square kilometers (6.2 square miles) in the eastern part of Wuhan about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the city center. Just to its west is a large high tech area called Optics Valley, and at its south and east is the protected, high-water-quality Liang Zhi Hu Lake, to which the water from the Wulijie is drained. The climate is hot and rainy in the summer and cold in the winter. Precipitation is around 1200 millimeters (47 inches) per year; the average high temperature in...

Dr. Yu Kongjian and his "sponge city" model have helped change how we think of landscape architecture but also seen him branded a "US spy" by some