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Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some images of the Mexican pavilion designed by Mexican studio Slot. at Shanghai Expo 2010, taken by Iwan Baan. (more…)

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pIf you’ve got an interest in the a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/real_estate_bust_how_creatives_are_carving_up_las_empty_space_16288.asp”potential creative uses/a for empty urban space, emThe Good, The Bad and The Empty/em might be worth a watch. In it, Douglas Paulson, who is a teaching artist at the Center for Urban Pedagogy, works alongside students in an afterschool program in East Flatbush to investigate the “hidden uses, ownership patterns, and alternate futures” in the lots right near their school. /p

pThe film will be presented by the Center for Urban Pedagogy at the Anthology Film Archives at 7:30 on June 1st. The screening will be followed by a panel discussions with empty lot experts moderated by the documentary crew./p

pThe event is free, but be sure to RSVP to info (at) anothercupdevelopment (dot) org./p

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Rikard Spirit (Max Ryan), the architect who seduces Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) in Sex and the City 2

Perhaps you’ve heard about a little film bounding into theaters nationwide today. It’s about a quartet of improbably diverse gal pals who live in New York and never wear the same outfit twice. Earlier this week, we donned some vintage Thierry Mugler and our most vertiginous heels for a preview screening of Sex and the City 2 (or, if you’re in Finland, Sinkkuelämää 2) and discovered a few tenuous links to the world of design. We’ll leave you to make up your own mind on the madcap costumes dreamed up by Patricia Field and her team, whose appetite for outsized, glitter-encrusted accessories and ’80s jewel tones knows no bounds, but we think SATC2 is worth seeing for the Tim Gunn cameo alone. In delivering his lone line, Gunn demonstrates the best comic timing in the film. We smell a supporting actor nomination.

But here’s the real SATC2 talking point to pull out at the Memorial Day barbecue: when the girls find themselves in Abu Dhabi on a press junket, Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), who the sequel finds fending off menopause with the help of Suzanne Somers and fistfuls of synthetic hormones, is seduced by none other than a raffish architect! A dashing, grizzled-a-la-Richard-Branson figure roars up out of nowhere in the back of a jeep, dazzles the women, and then disappears over the dunes (which writer/director Michael Patrick King told us are the very same dunes that appeared in Lawrence of Arabia). He’s revealed to be one Rikard Spirit (Max Ryan), “a Danish architect” staying at the same hotel as the ladies. The film, which we found maddeningly short on exterior shots, doesn’t say any more about Spirit’s work, but a crude pun, sexual hijinks, and a plot-pivoting scuffle with the Abu Dhabi authorities all come courtesy of the architect, a design-minded deus ex machina.

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This stylish and simple lamp, evocative style of Art Deco is at the same time minimalistic and energy efficient.

The European Design Festival starts today in Rotterdam, supported by a range of material by Studio Dumbar intended to recall the visual language of protest movements

The European Design Festival, which supposedly “celebrates European design with all its regional distinctive elements as well as its common grounds” has the theme of Shifting Perspectives this year, with speakers including Astrid Stavro, Philippe Apeloig and Reza Abedini.

In the light of the current financial crisis, Studio Dumbar wanted to raise what it thought were some important questions regarding the role of design and whether “we, in the current, global economic crisis, raise the right questions and address the current issues?”

The materials, including street banners, T-shirts, animations and printed materials, combine the handpainted styles of protest signs with abstracted flags of European nations.