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Kongjian Yu? wins the 2023 Oberlander Prize for achievements in landscape architecture

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Kongjian Yu has been announced as the winner of this year’s Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). Yu is known throughout the landscape profession for pioneering the ‘sponge city’ urban design concept in China after 1995.

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News: Kongjian Yu? wins the 2023 Oberlander Prize for achievements in landscape architecture

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Kongjian Yu has been announced as the winner of this year’s Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). Yu is known throughout the landscape profession for pioneering the ‘sponge city’ urban design concept in China after 1995.

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Kongjian Yu wins 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander award

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