OF all the big ideas packed into FoodParc, a food court that slices through the ground floor of the new Eventi Hotel on Sixth Avenue (between 29th and 30th Streets), the most riveting is the design. The elliptical columns and white banquettes are from the mind of Syd Mead, the designer behind “Blade Runner” and “Tron.”

Mr. Mead, 77, calls himself a futurist. Sure enough, FoodParc seems as if it’s from the future, though it’s less a far-off dystopia than a spotless mall opening in Seoul next year. Once Mr. Mead made moviegoers reflect on the dark promise of technology; now he has given New York a slick place to get a burger.

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