Renowned ‘sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu dies in Brazil plane crash
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Amy Hawkins, se from World news | The Guardian on (#70929)
The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlands
Kongjian Yu, one of the world's most famous landscape architects, has reportedly been killed in a plane crash in Brazil'sPantanal wetlands while making a film about his work.
Yu, 62, was flying to a ranch in Mato Grosso do Sul state, near Brazil's western border with Paraguay and Bolivia, in a single-engine four-seater Cessna aircraft when the plane went down on Tuesday afternoon.
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