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Han River

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Han River  (hän)
A river, about 1,126 km (700 mi) long, of east-central China flowing generally southeast to the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River).


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In 2004 it won the grand prize at the Wuhan International Design competition in China for its master plan of an 8-mile stretch of land alongside the Han River (a tributary of the Yangtze River).
It was won by Rudy Ricciotti whose imagination -- austere, dramatic, and at times, ironic and surreal -- we have seen exercised on design of structures as varied as a slender footbridge across the Han River, from Seoul to Sunyudo Island, an equally tautly designed sailing school at Bandol (AR July 1998), and the great anthracite monolith of the Vitrolles Stadium (AR February 1996), built in what was once a municipal rubbish tip.
military personnel and the infringement on South Korean sovereignty during subsequent legal proceedings; a dispute over a coastal bombing range, considered dangerous and noisy by nearby residents; and military dumping of deadly formaldehyde into the Han River, a source of drinking water for Seoul.
 
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