Eye Candy: British Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 Is Part Cleopatra Jones, Part Pinhead

Unlike middling entries from the U.S. and Canada, Thomas Heatherwick's British pavilion rocks.

The Boston Globe's totally sweet photo blog, the Big Picture, has a new entry up covering the Shanghai Expo. It kicks off May 1, and construction on the pavilions is wrapping up. We've seen the renderings, and covered a few of the major fails (as well as a couple past successes), but now we can finally see the pavilions in the flesh.

The clear stand-out is Thomas Heatherwick's British pavilion, a...