Champion of “Sponge Cities” Concept, China’s Kongjian Yu, Wins Global Oberlander Prize

“Kongjian Yu has achieved the extraordinary,” said Birnbaum. “He is a landscape architect whose design philosophy and concepts, which interweave nature and culture, and are committed to design excellence, have been adopted as national policy in one of the world’s largest and most populous nations – that has international implications and global impact.”