Modern challenges such as floods, rising global temperatures and water shortages can be mitigated with a holistic but revolutionary approach – turning the planet into a sponge, a strategy that is already being deployed in more than 250 cities.

Kunl é Adeyemi and Kongjian Yu shared their sustainable architecture and design work at the Audi Summit to make cities more environmentally friendly。

El arquitecto Kongjian Yu fue reconocido con el Premio Internacional de Arquitectura del Paisaje, Oberlander 2023.

Peking University professor Kongjian Yu says sponge city is a model based on the regulation of stormwater adaptation to the monsoon.

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The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has named Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu (DDes ’95) the winner of the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, a biennial honor that includes a $100,000 award and two years of public engagement activities focused on the laureate’s work and landscape architecture more broadly.

Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu has been announced by the Cultural Landscape Foundation as the recipient of the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize (“Oberlander Prize”).

1. Project Statement Over the last half century, Dianchi Lake has seen its natural nutrient cycle destroyed by the growth of chemical based farming along its shores. Fertilizer runoff has saturated the waters with chemical nutrients causing the lake to become eutrophic. As a demonstrative project, Zicao Valley acts as a pilot program for reconnecting the nutrient cycle through harvesting eutrophic lakewater for use in an agricultural landscape, cleansing the water while creating recreationa...

1. Project Statement China’s development pressures are tremendous and environmental and socio-cultural consequences devastating. Throughout China, rivers are channelized and hardly recognizable as the cultural gathering and social centers they once were. In Kunming (capital of Yunnan Province), the Pan Long River (Kunming’s ‘mother river’) has become a hardened landscape (with no natural edges) and a sewer for parts of the city. The project (re)develops the landscape structure in tandem wit...