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...Flow: There's an unmistakably nutty, fruity aroma at the ultra-contemporary, climate-controlled cheese room at Flow restaurant within the riverside Millennium Hilton Bangkok, www1.hilton. com. Some of the world's best varieties are flaunted, including Colston Bassett Stilton, Brie Royale with black truffle, and piquant Pecorino di Fossa from Italy. Guests are encouraged to taste before making their selection, which is served with a stylish range of condiments including celery jelly. A cheese-and-wine butler advises on pairings and there's a dedicated cheese table for guests to sit at and convivially share their newfound cheese knowledge...
Piano has placed floor-to-ceiling glass walls at the north and south ends of his building, which introduce light directly into some of the galleries through a scrim that can be raised on overcast days. The window walls also admit some powerful views of Millennium Park, including a huge vista of the billowing steel panels of Frank Gehry's wonderful Pritzker band shell, which comes at you like a breaker on the beach at Santa Monica...
...Modern Wing from Millennium Park by way of a slender pedestrian bridge that rises to deposit visitors onto a rooftop sculpture terrace that's free of charge. But to be admitted to the galleries, which on most days have an admission fee, you enter at ground level. What you find there is a three-story, glass-roofed atrium, a long processional space that's flanked on the left by a freestanding stairway that zigzags up to galleries on the second and third floors. On the right, temporary exhibition galleries occupy the first floor, with design and architecture above them...
...goes without saying that Gehry's pinwheeling band shell in Millennium Park couldn't be more unlike Piano's firm Cartesian box. Seeing them across from each other makes you think of those neighborhoods in Rome where the Baroque rubs shoulders with the classical, but with the difference that the Gehry and the Piano were built just a few years apart. Now they face each other as signs of the immense range of architectural practice these days - and of the fact that there's more than one road to the peak...
...model is the village of Sauri, a short walk from Odiambo's shop, where seed and fertilizer supplied by Columbia University's Millennium Promise has allowed farmers to reclaim soils that were depleted or weed-infested, expanding cultivated land by 50% and quadrupling maize production. Growers who struggled to feed their families now enjoy surpluses. Within three years, most could afford to buy the inputs themselves...