Renowned ‘sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu dies in Brazil plane crash

The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlandsKongjian 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