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This week, we’ve scoured our Pinterest archives for high-rise apartments with vertiginous views of city skylines. From a luxury penthouse in Manhattan’s tallest tower to a 30th-floor condominium in Kiev, here are some of the best from around the world.

R1T flat, Israel, by Paritzki & Liani Architects

Israeli firm Paritzki & Liani Architects installed a PVC ceiling in this Tel Aviv apartment to reflect the surrounding cityscape. Panoramic views of the nearby harbour can be seen through floor-to-ceiling windows that border the living room.

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432 Park Avenue penthouse, US, by Kelly Behun

New York is known for its high-rise buildings, but the 92nd floor of Rafael Viñoly’s 432 Park Avenue tower has the best view of the city. The penthouse interiors were designed by Kelly Behun to maximise the dramatic perspective from 1,396 feet up.

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Hong Kong apartment, China, by MNB Design Studio

A pared-back aesthetic was used by local studio MNB Design Studio for this apartment in Hong Kong, which is located within a high-rise block with views of the city’s mountainous Tai Wai area. The apartment also features a house-shaped wooden structure around the entrance to the dining area.

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Canaletto Tower, UK, by Black & Milk

Local interior design company Black & Milk created this understated bachelor pad for a city trader within UNStudio’s 31-storey luxury residential skyscraper overlooking London’s financial district. The interior scheme follows a neutral colour palette with marble finishings.

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Life After Madrid, Slovenia, by Arhitektura DOO

A kitchen looking out over Ljubljana is the main feature of this remodelled apartment, located inside a tower built by modernist architect Edvard Ravnikar in the 1960s. Slovenian studio Arhitektura DOO modernised the small home with contrasting stainless steel surfaces and a bright neon light.

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Veranda on the Roof, India, by Studio Course

A tranquil rooftop garden helps to make this penthouse apartment in west India feel more like a traditional house, featuring a mix of outdoor and indoor rooms alongside views of the city Pune.

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Layer of White, Israel, by Pitsou Kedem Architects

This minimal top-floor apartment in Tel Aviv by Pitsou Kedem Architects features white textured walls and wide open spaces. Full-height glazing has been used in the living room and bedroom to give panoramic views over the city.

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35XV, US, by FXFOWLE 

This shard-like glass skyscraper by New York-based firm FXFOWLE is a recent addition to the city’s low-rise Chelsea neighbourhood. The 18-storey mixed use building includes this residential apartment, which provides its occupants with a light, airy interior and “unparalleled views” of the surrounding cityscape.

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Novopecherskie Lipki, Ukraine, by Olga Akulova 

Located on the 30th floor of a Kiev condominium, this “English-style” apartment has floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Dnieper River. Local designer Olga Akulova was asked by the client to create a space using natural materials that would be suitable for entertaining friends.

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Habitat 67, Canada, by EMarchitecture

Architect Moshe Safdie’s iconic brutalist apartment complex in Montreal hosts 158 box homes – including this one. Renovated by Canadian design studio EMarchitecture, the new interior features a double-height kitchen and a second dining space on the terrace which overlooks the rest of the building.

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A new digital billboard in London‘s Piccadilly Circus uses recognition technology to display targeted advertisements based on the make of passing cars, and the gender and age of pedestrians.

The screen wraps around the facades of buildings overlooking the popular tourist destination, and replaces six separate screens that previously formed the advertisement display.

Built-in cameras concealed within the screen can track the make, model and colour of passing cars to deliver targeted adverts, said Landsec, the company that owns the billboard named Piccadilly Lights.

Brands are able to pre-programme specific adverts to play when particular cars drive past, and adapt to the age or gender of passersby.

The cameras and an algorithm register visual cues – for instance, hair length and height – to make assumptions on the demographics of the area. For example, if the algorithm detects a higher proportion of women in the area it could display promotions for womenswear.

The technology can also be used to respond to changes in the weather, news, sports reports and social media updates.

Local Wi-Fi means that people can engage with the brands shown on the screen using social media platforms. This can then be used by the brands to project adverts that best represent the interests of people in the area.

“The new screen technology includes visual sensors that can detect certain elements of the surrounding area, with the potential to then adapt the content in response to it,” Landsec told Dezeen.

“Although the Piccadilly Lights screen will be able to display advertising content that responds to real-time factors – such as the weather or the colour of cars – the technology is not able to recognise individual people or display individually targeted content.”

Launched 26 October 2017, the screen measuring 17.5 metres by 44.6 metres is made of 11 million pixels and is the largest of its kind in Europe.

Unlike the old display, which was made up of six slightly separated panels, the new single screen means a single advert can be stretched across its entire surface. But there is still the option to electronically divide the screen to display multiple adverts at once.

Piccadilly Circus is one of London’s busiest intersections, with an estimated 100 million people passing through it each year, making it a prime advertising space for businesses.

So far, seven brands, including Coca-Cola, Samsung, Hyundai, L’Oréal Paris, eBay, Hunter and Stella McCartney, have displayed adverts on the newly-launched screen, which is managed by digital advertising company Ocean Outdoor.

The advertising screen was initially introduced to the site in 1908 and later replaced by digital projectors in 1998.

The most recent opening follows a period of renovation where the screens were inactive for nine months.

“The Piccadilly Lights have been one of London’s icons for over a century, and are an unmissable sight for the hundred million people who pass through Piccadilly Circus every year,” said Landsec’s portfolio director, Vasiliki Arvaniti.

An increase in the use of recognition technology in public spaces, such as the installation of three digital interactive screens in Birmingham’s Grand Central Station in 2015, has prompted a number of architects and designers to explore the phenomena.

Earlier this year, architects Herzog & de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei used drones to track visitors at an installation at New York’s Park Avenue Armory as a comment on surveillance and facial recognition technology.

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As minimalistic as this spherical Neptune speaker is, it’s also surprisingly modular. The orb delivers 360 degree audio but actually consists of 3 distinct speaker units that can work in tandem or independently. “Nepsides” as they’re called, split away from the central unit and can be used simultaneously or independently while you take your tunes with you from room to room. The main unit will continue to work and automatically switch off when you rejoin the Nepsides!

Designer: Walpix

I use a small ultrasonic jewelry cleaner to wash old machine parts, and it’s amazing watching decades of grease just mist away into liquid clouds. But the size of the machine’s tub limits what I can put in there.

The developers of Sonic Soak came up with a better idea: Isolate the ultrasound-providing element, placing it in a wand form factor. 

Then the object can be dropped into any vessel, like a bowl or even a kitchen sink, and turn the entire thing into an ultrasonic bath:

It’s pretty brilliant, which is why it’s become a crowdfunding smash: At press time the Sonic Soak had racked up $514,076 in pledges on a measly $10,000 goal. Buy-in starts at $230, and the developers estimate they’ll have these ready to ship in December.