ChangChui Creative Park

This guide to ChangChui Creative Park in Bangkok follows fashion designer Somchai Songwattana, who bought a stretch of reclaimed landfill on Sirindhorn Road and sketched an entire village himself, without hiring a single architect. It traces the retired Lockheed TriStar jet at the center of the plan, once flown by Delta and other carriers, that Somchai had hauled in and converted into a candlelit fuselage restaurant. You'll hear how he settled on the name Chang Chui and the philosophy behind it. Look closely at the doors around you, each salvaged from a demolished building.