Towerblock, Hong Kong

18 Kowloon East is a massive tower integrated in the skyline of Hong Kong, designed by Aedas and serving various space and living purposes. According to the architects, “the project is a 28-storey mixed-use building with offices, retail spaces and a car-park. With the building located in a community with dense industrial blocks.

Galaxy dress

The GalaxyDress uses the smallest full-color LEDs which are flat like paper and measure only 2 by 2 mm. The circuits are extra-thin, flexible, and hand embroidered on a layer of silk in a way that gives it stretch, so the LED fabric can move like normal fabric with lightness and fluidity. To diffuse the light there are 4 layers of silk chiffon that moves really beautifully as well. The extra-thin electronics allows the design to follow the body shape closely like with normal fabric.

HearWear

HearWear is a concept created by Younghui Kim and Milena Iossifova, uses the sound/noise level of the environment to create active color patterns on clothing or bags.These cool garments interact with ambient sounds and show the levels on the garment.  The microphone and processor converts the sound levels into light via LEDS and EL wire.Despite its coolness, this may also have safety purposes too.

Luminites

The Fabric is a non-reflective material that can omit its own light.
Harnessing the technology of light with the luminous fibres used in the material has produced a material that can be used in
many different areas.
Using integrated electronics the fabric can also be used as an intelligent material processing signals from a heartbeat or body temperature and respond consistently to environmental stimuli.

The fibre optic fibres that are woven into the fabric are bundled at the edge of the material. Then, with the use of LED technology, light is passed through the fibres creating a lighting effect never seen before in textiles.

This exciting innovation is only available in the UK from Luminites.

Gabriel Dawes

Gabriel Dawe's colorful 'Plexus installation
Using only thread, wood and nails, Dawe creates these masterpieces of optical illustion…

Marni, Las Vegas

Italian designer label Marni has recently opened its first flagship boutique at Crystals, a swanky indoor/outdoor shopping center at the CityCenter.

The store's interiors were conceptualized by Marni designer Consuelo Castiglioni, in conjunction with architecture firm Sybarite. And the 800-square-foot shop is as singular as the brand's aesthetics -- boasting a massive glass-paneled facade and a surrealistic interior, defined by a curving floor surrounding a tree-like series of swooping metal racks that showcases the brand's current collection.
The shop's Dr. Suess-like spaciness doesn't end there. Undulating walls are marked by an alternating convex-concave "bubble" relief pattern, while fiberglass display cases house accessories and shoes. Mannequin bodies dolled up in Marni looks hang suspended from the ceiling like aliens -- albeit super-stylish ones -- dropping down to Earth.

Majik Cafe

Karim Rashid continues his philosophy of creating a digipop digital nature and a seamless world that excites all the senses with Majik Cafe, a new restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia.

Living walls

BioTecture Ltd is dedicated to designing and implementing sustainable green/living walls for buildings and the built environment. Plants are pre-grown vertically in a unique, patented, modular hydroponic system, designed to deliver precise, low water usage and low maintenance, proven over time to give superior performance. Can be used for interior and exterior walls.

Back light wood paneling

Specchia Menotti Italian Company has this amazing wood paneling your home to dress nines. Designed by Stefano Calchi Novati, X. Lumen panels can be used on wall and ceiling. Available with or without back lighting, this cool collection of wood paneling also be adapted to your home and your style fits a T. These modular panels can be ordered in any size and shape, so that even hard to end finds their room’s perfect complement. It can also be combined with your existing lighting, unique lighting to create compositions. After Specchia Menotti, “aesthetics and function, art and technology, modularity and uniqueness” in this mix is a must have accessories, which will make your furniture, your house and your style to new heights.

Wood and plastic wall panels

Designed by Lamellux, some of them sit as flat as any painted drywall surface would, but compensate by containing an array of textured materials trapped in resin, curved arcs of colorful infill and/or semi-see-through waves of plexiglass or plastic. Others bulge and bend outward as fully three-dimensional shapes, or give the appearance of being carved into like a wooden or stone surface. 
These raised, hybrid-material wall panel systems are nothing short of spectacular. Using various combinations of resin, plastic, wood and metal, they are sensuous in texture and span the spectrum from opaque panels to translucent tiles.

While the more transparent versions might not work for a bathroom, they would make for great room dividers and interior wall panels – separating spaces in style while still letting light and shadows show through