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Bora Bora is a 12-square-mile (30-square-km) island chain in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. The main island, which has an extinct volcano at its center, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. Bora Bora is a major international tourist destination, famous for its aqua-centric luxury resorts. It has about 10,600 permanent residents but is visited by hundreds of thousands of travelers each year.

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-16.501000°, -151.740000°

Source imagery: Maxar

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When an interior designer and a furniture dealer, who are also life partners, join forces to create a space, it is no wonder the end result is outstanding. In this floor-through apartment located in an old Tribeca building, in New York City, Ryan Lawson (who is at the helm of his eponymous studio) and Sean Robins (who is a principal in Studio Van den Akker and rents this place) faced a big challenge: the lack of natural light.

“While it is a great open space, it has limited light with windows only at the front and the back,” Lawson says. But sometimes constraints are the starting point for great ideas.

At night, the collection of modernist furniture and art – that the couple put together over the past decade – come to life in a whole different way thanks to the smart lighting system Hue from Philips (chosen by Robins), which allows the brightness and colour of every single light bulb in the apartment to be controlled separately from an iPhone.

“Sean is a tech fiend so I never know what’s coming next,” Lawson confesses. “The temperature of all the lights can be made warm and cozy in the way of incandescent light, no matter the type of fixture. The fun part is that they also can be made – each bulb separately – any colour in the light spectrum and set in all sorts of ‘moods’.”

Making the selection of objects, pieces of furniture and artworks, which would stand out during the day and also at night, was not an easy task for Lawson and Robins.

“Both of us working in the design world, there is a lot of visual information that we take in every day – historical references, interiors, art galleries, books, auctions,” says Lawson. “All day long, we see things. So, really, our biggest job is to edit ourselves.”

Related: Form-Meets-Function: 20 Bond New York City Apartment by Home Studios.

Paintings by Fritz Scholder, Michael Boyd, Ryan Sullivan and Matthew Kelberg; a photo of the Brussels cathedral by Markus Brunetti; two coffee tables by Ado Chale; a black and clear glass cabinet by Maurice Pre; lamps by Lisa Johansson Pape and Luigi Caccia Dominioni; and the Flag Halyard chair by Hans Wegner are some of the treasures to discover in the different areas. Lawson, however, has two favourites: “the Zig Zag stool cast aluminium commissioned by me for Sean’s and my 10th anniversary from Desert Cast, a Kuwaiti design collective” and the big vintage pendants from the 1960s by Pierre Szekely over the dining table, which “make a huge impact”, according to Lawson. “And they’re very fun to have dinner underneath.”

The rich saturated colours perfectly fit Robins’s taste and lean into the moody vibe of the space. “I hope the apartment looks tight and edited, but still personal and really shows that all of the things truly were collected over time,” Lawson says.

Related: Downtown New York City Pied‐à‐terre by Sandra Weingort.

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Check out this photograph of skyscrapers peeking through the clouds over Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The city has built more skyscrapers higher than ⅔ km (2,200 ft), ⅓ km (1,100 ft), or ¼ km (820 ft) than any other city on the planet.

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25.263056°, 55.297222°

Source imagery: Carsten Witte

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Makati is one of sixteen cities that make up Metropolitan Manila, the capital of the Philippines. It is home to more than 580,000 permanent residents, but its population can more than double during the daytime as large numbers of people enter the city to work, shop and do business. As seen in this Overview, the architecture of the city is a fascinating blend of Spanish colonial-style buildings and modern skyscrapers.

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14.550000°, 121.033333°

Source imagery: Maxar

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Check out this amazing Overview of the Banks Peninsula, which juts off the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island. The landmass, which is volcanic in origin, has an area of roughly 440 square miles (1,150 sq. km) and encompasses two large harbors and many small bays and coves. It is believed that forests once covered 98% of the Banks Peninsula, yet — as the result of deforestation — less than 2% of the native forest cover remains today.

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-43.750000°, 172.833000°

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Hong Kong is an autonomous territory — and former British colony — in southeastern China. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, it has become one of the world’s most significant financial centers and commercial ports. Hong Kong has the largest number of skyscrapers in the world, most of which surround Victoria Harbor and are captured in this Overview.

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22.118306°, 113.999195°

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The Venetian Islands are a chain of six manmade islands in Miami Beach, Florida. Rivo Alto Island (left), Di Lido Island (center), and Marino Island (right) are pictured here. While the islands’ residential neighborhoods have some of the highest property values in the city, they are also among the first places ordered to evacuate in advance of a hurricane.

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25.790831°, -80.160975°

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Makati is one of sixteen cities that make up Metropolitan Manila, the capital of the Philippines. It is home to more than 580,000 permanent residents, but its population can more than double during the daytime as large numbers of people enter the city to work, shop and do business. As seen in this Overview, the architecture of the city is a fascinating blend of Spanish colonial-style buildings and modern skyscrapers.

See more here: https://bit.ly/3uPM8MC

14.550000°, 121.033333°

Source imagery: Maxar

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The Venetian Islands are a chain of six manmade islands in Miami Beach, Florida. Rivo Alto Island (left), Di Lido Island (center), and Marino Island (right) are pictured here. While the islands’ residential neighborhoods have some of the highest property values in the city, they are also among the first places ordered to evacuate in advance of a hurricane.

See more here: https://bit.ly/3sFfGKG

25.790831°, -80.160975°

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Hong Kong is an autonomous territory — and former British colony — in southeastern China. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, it has become one of the world’s most significant financial centers and commercial ports. Hong Kong has the largest number of skyscrapers in the world, most of which surround Victoria Harbor and are captured in this Overview.

See more here: https://bit.ly/37TZwoS

22.118306°, 113.999195°

Source imagery: Maxar