Delmi Álvarez

Billboard in countryside.

A corner for sale to build a building.

The roof of a mall that hide the view of the sea. A controversial construction.

Owner of the gas station decide to paint a view of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Pennsylvania train station. New York.

A view from room hotel of buildings in Panamá city.

Different vanishing points of this factory structure.

Just a note from my car window when driving in París.

Construction for banana production in La Palma. The structure use a special fabric to prevent the entry of insects and dust that damage the growth of the banana.

Skylines in the heart of Manhattan.

Mirror effect in a window of a new building.

Architectural aberration in the center of Vigo, Puerta del Sol. In the area, which is surrounded by granite constructions, they placed two black, square columns, and at the top a metal figure known as the Mermaid (male) that does not They fit into place. The structure generated great controversy in the city, a controversy that lasted for weeks and that some welcomed with joy as it was one of the few occasions in which the people of Vigo debated artistic issues in public.

The architect José Bar Boo, for his part, rejected the sculpture and its location. After pointing out that it was “absolutely stupid,” he argued that “a public monument is not, and can never be, something that is left to the discretion of the sculptor, because it is architecture.”

Baltic beach.

A house recovered by hiedra in the river Sil, Ourense.

A pole beach in winter.

“Gonzalo”. Shadows of the red clay tiles on a house in a rural town in Castilla. Spain.

Remains of a WW2 nazi bunker in the Baltic coast of Liepaja.

The proliferation of sports pontoons in port areas, in addition to creating a significant environmental impact, carries the risk of waste disposal and its regulations are very restrictive.. Aerial view of pleasure boat dock.

Installation in a park against noise. Ixelles, Bruxelles.

A concret base with chairs as a resource for children to play in a kindagarten. Sigulda, Latvia

Instalation of umbrellas in Vilanova da Cerveira, Portugal.

Installation of figures in front of the European Parliament, Brusells.

Use of the eaves of a former KGB building in Hungary, now a museum.

A former gas station in a rural road near Portugal.

A former jet used to install in a square in the west of Spain, close to Portugal.

Obra de Amanda Levete. Lisboa.

Manhattan.

Riga

Benidorm, Alicante.

The big business in the european capital.

Comuna de Ixelles

European Parliament buildings.

European Parliament.

Building facade.

Bastion tower.

The Bastion tower.

European Parliament.

Royal Museo africano en Tervuren, Bruselas.

New building anexed to the African Museum Tervuren, Brussels.

Archs in the harbour of Tazacorte. A port without ships after an investment of 50 million euros. More than two years after the inauguration of the expansion, the reality is that there is a facility without activity that offers a desolate image, without boats.

Two years after the expansion was inaugurated (2015), neither cruise ships, nor passenger traffic, nor cargo, to transport the banana, because the shipping companies do not dock there.

Vilanova da Cerverira. Portugal.

Wood bunks in hostel. La Palma, Canary Islands.

Glasses frame incrusted in a paving stone. Brussels, Belgium.

Electronic scrap nailed to a century-old tree in Estoril. From the nature protection department in the Cascais Chamber where this area corresponds, they stated that they have no idea who nailed the electronic scrap to the tree, but according to neighbors and workers from several cafes they say that it was the owner of one of the bars to attract customers' attention. An urban aberration in an international tourism area that is very environmentally conscious.

Antwerp port. The Port Authority Building, or the Port House, is a government building located in Antwerp, Belgium, built between 2009 and 2016 and designed by architect Zaha Hadid. It is located in the area of Eilandje, in the Port of Antwerp, and acts as the new headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority, housing various departments.

Decoration on walls. Antwerp.

Warsaw. Poland

Part of a signal in the harbour of Cangas, Pontevedra.

Door designed with colors with reference to the sea. France.

The designers cover the floor of the bathroom with photos of river boulders. France.

Brussels.

París.

In the foreground, a mountain of coal piled up during years in which there was great mining activity in the area. Charleroi.

Sculpture in wood in the summit of Xaxán mountain. Domaio, Pontevedra.

The wave of immigration to Britain from Asia and Africa encountered a wall in crossing the English Channel. Thousands of people arriving from countries at war and famine made long and painful journeys to the gates of British and European paradise. For the French authorities it posed a serious problem and created refugee camps with hardly any sanitary or hygienic facilities, a place of waiting that lasted weeks and months.. Camp tents for families at the refugee makeshift camp of Grande-Synthe, Dunkirque, France, January 15, 2016

París.

Lake in Lithuania.

The Daugava river frozen in winter 2013. Due to the climate change and polluting discharges the water is above 1 C and never again with ice in his surface.

An ironic tourist view of the Hambi coal mine in Germany. The NRW company, in a good act of faith to compensate for the destruction of an ancient forest and ancient towns, built several viewpoints with cafes from which to watch the enormous monstrous machines gutting the earth in search of coal.

Brussels.

Crossing Warsaw.

Rue Belliard in pandemia times.

Institutions area. Brussels.

Highway in Europe.

Park Leopold

Brussels landscape.

Crossroad. Brussels.

Air tubes pocked by bullets and shrapnel from the war in Vukovar. 1991.

Baltics.

Brussels

Brussels

Plot before the Apple store building.

Backyard of a home artist.

Unknown or undisclosed location

Unknown or undisclosed location

Unknown or undisclosed location

Isla de Lanzarote.

Nube solitaria. Bruselas.

Vista desde la habitación del hotel.

Bruselas

Edificios cerca de la plaza Luxemburgo.

Escaparate de tienda de flores y jardinería. Plaza Flagey. Bruselas.

Hamacas para la visión de un evento. Bruselas.

Domingo. Bruselas.

Camino de Santiago Francés. Francia.

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C'est avec le solstice d’été que je vous annonce la fin du projet « Réfléchir », et le crépuscule du blockhaus-miroir. Autor anónimo.

Mar de lava arrasando campos agrícolas. La Palma. Islas Canarias.

The new NATO headquarters in Brussels had a cost of 1.1 billion euros, as admitted by the then Belgian Defense Minister, Didier Reynders, and today the Commissioner for Justice of the European Commission. It's a building with few frills, but can resist bomb or cyber-attacks, withstand power outages and even recycle rainwater.

People or firms run out of money when building because they underestimated the budget or have since gone bankrupt. Sometimes, members of the diaspora build homes but send money to builders slowly (after each pay check) and so the process of construction is elongated. Othertimes, families might build an extra floor on their home for their sons or daughters and it is normally seen as a long term project. Basically, they’ll finish it slowly as and when money is available.Because Cyprus is usually hot and dry, you don't have to worry too much about heavy rain, so many use the building site as a large balcony until it is complete.

People or firms run out of money when building because they underestimated the budget or have since gone bankrupt. Sometimes, members of the diaspora build homes but send money to builders slowly (after each pay check) and so the process of construction is elongated. Othertimes, families might build an extra floor on their home for their sons or daughters and it is normally seen as a long term project. Basically, they’ll finish it slowly as and when money is available. Because Cyprus is usually hot and dry, you don't have to worry too much about heavy rain, so many use the building site as a large balcony until it is complete.

The ING bank building is a fortress in the middle of the European quarter. Close to the place there is a small green area as a park, closed now due to reforms. In the last years, the park have been a renamed as rats park, due to the many rats running and walking by the grass and between the users. Inside the area is an installation made by plastic or polierutano where once inside there is any noise, mostly from cars.

Gioconda forgotten under a tree. A photographic replica of the famous canvas, abandoned on the street to be taken away by the garbage truck and collected and adopted by a family in their garden. Wild consumerism in many cities around the world is one of the big problems against planned obsolescence. Buy, throw away, buy again and generate garbage that is left on the streets, such as those of the commune of Ixelles, the European neighborhood, where money flows without problem and where it is easier to abandon objects of enormous value, Ikea furniture new ones, mainly due to the great mobility of ex-pats and officials of the European Commission.

Near road in Baltics.

Magdara's garden party. Riga. Before and after pandemia many people abandoned jobs and found a retirement in small villages, with green landscapes where to grow healthy food.

El Sr. Joaquim, de la población portuguesa de Caneiras, Portugal, pescando artesanalmente en el río en 1999. Hoy, esto ya es historia, la contaminación por residuos y el cambio climático que incrementan la temperatura del agua ha contribuido a la desaparación de especies de río.

Uno de los mayores problemas para que el paisaje urbano no influya en el cambio climático es la concienciación política, que tiene todas las herramientas para que eso sea posible. Las metas que se han interpuesto para que la temperatura en el planeta no siga incrementándose son lentas y no todos los gobiernos implantan las medidas, aunque los esfuerzos no son del todo comunitarios.

One of the very serious cases in the autonomous region of Galicia, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, is the polluting discharges that the company ENCE, a paper pulp producer, has been discharging for years. The forestry policy of the Galician government has played an important role in this situation that has destroyed shellfish harvesting and traditional fishing in the Pontevedra estuary, with the implementation of the eucalyptus, an external tree species that has destroyed the environment with great impact. impact and that has left in the hands of thousands of land owners, the uncontrolled practice of plantations of this species, disfiguring and displacing the native species of the region.

Forest fires also have their origin in the poor political management of the environment in regions such as Galicia, where since 2006 thousands of hectares of mountains and forest have burned due to several factors, one of them the speculation of land for construction, plantation of eucalyptus trees, or very organized mafia interests to profit from this unfortunate action against the environment. In the image, a small helicopter flies over a fire in the province of Pontevedra in 2006, a fight of David against Goliath in which those who make a living from agriculture and the ecosystems that take many years to rebuild always end up losing.

Small man-made lakes that collect water for agriculture and homes, helping to conserve ecosystems that need water to live and reproduce. Countryside winter in Baltic countries.

Activist Lakshmi Thevasagayam, in the campsite against mine coal in Lutzi, Keyenberg, Germany.

Mine coal in Lutzi, Keyenberg, Germany.

A shepherd with sheep in no man's land in Cyprus.

The real estate bubble had a strong impact on the island of Fuerteventura. Abandoned hotels and other attacks against nature, ruins that are already integrated into the landscape. This is how the crisis hit some unique landscapes on the island, where more infrastructure than necessary began to be built with a purely business vision.

The brick scandal in Spain and urban speculation left a destructive environmental impact on the environment. In Fuerteventura, hotels were built in protected places, the island being a biosphere reserve. The concrete skeletons are all over the island, it is a clear Anthropization of the landscape.

A barrier to the sea. The real estate bubble had a strong impact on the island of Fuerteventura. Abandoned hotels and other attacks against nature, ruins that are already integrated into the landscape. This is how the crisis hit some unique landscapes on the island, where more infrastructure than necessary began to be built with a purely business vision.

The brick scandal in Spain and urban speculation left a destructive environmental impact on the environment. In Fuerteventura, hotels were built in protected places, the island being a biosphere reserve. The concrete skeletons are all over the island, it is a clear Anthropization of the landscape.

A street unfinished. The real estate bubble had a strong impact on the island of Fuerteventura. Abandoned hotels and other attacks against nature, ruins that are already integrated into the landscape. This is how the crisis hit some unique landscapes on the island, where more infrastructure than necessary began to be built with a purely business vision.

The brick scandal in Spain and urban speculation left a destructive environmental impact on the environment. In Fuerteventura, hotels were built in protected places, the island being a biosphere reserve. The concrete skeletons are all over the island, it is a clear Anthropization of the landscape.

The real estate bubble had a strong impact on the island of Fuerteventura. Abandoned hotels and other attacks against nature, ruins that are already integrated into the landscape. This is how the crisis hit some unique landscapes on the island, where more infrastructure than necessary began to be built with a purely business vision.

The brick scandal in Spain and urban speculation left a destructive environmental impact on the environment. In Fuerteventura, hotels were built in protected places, the island being a biosphere reserve. The concrete skeletons are all over the island, it is a clear Anthropization of the landscape.

The real estate bubble had a strong impact on the island of Fuerteventura. Abandoned hotels and other attacks against nature, ruins that are already integrated into the landscape. This is how the crisis hit some unique landscapes on the island, where more infrastructure than necessary began to be built with a purely business vision.

The brick scandal in Spain and urban speculation left a destructive environmental impact on the environment. In Fuerteventura, hotels were built in protected places, the island being a biosphere reserve. The concrete skeletons are all over the island, it is a clear Anthropization of the landscape.

Baltics

Tatra mountains.

Belgian activism by citizens to use the streets of Brussels as places empties of cars on weekends.

Belgian activism by citizens to use the streets of Brussels as places empty of cars on weekends.

Belgian activism by citizens to use the streets of Brussels as places empty of cars on weekends.

Eco tourism in Canary islands by a submarine to watch the deep waters.

A Shipwreck in Cyprus is now a touristic object.

Neighbors line up to pass buckets of water to put out a fire that threatens a school. The means to combat arson or natural fires are not sufficient to combat the fire. This was demonstrated by these neighbors organizing a line to pass buckets of water from a supportive firm in the face of the helplessness generated by not having the necessary help.

May 2018, an explosion of thousands of kilos of gunpowder stored in a pyrotechnic device causes two deaths, dozens of injuries and the virtual destruction of the De A Torre neighborhood, in Paramos, Tui.

After five years of neighborhood struggle to receive aid and rebuild the town, the children of the deceased couple ask for justice for a trial that has not yet been held.

Art installation in an area of ruined houses. Baltics. Artists, supported or not by political organizations, take advantage of vacant urban spaces to make temporary installations and thus show another form of occupation of the territory to avoid the ugliness of the ruins of plots where speculation has not yet arrived.

Urban vandalism appropriates real estate in cities to destroy everyone's landscape. This is the case of the bus stops in the Ixelles neighborhood, Brussels, painted that do not respond to any artistic idea and made with a material that is very difficult to erase and that will ultimately be paid for with public money.

The golden mile, Toison d'Or, Brussels, where big brands look for land to build buildings to locate their stores. In the image, the work where Zara, Apple and other companies that generate millions of euros in the global consumerism market are currently located.

Street artist Banksy created the graffiti design on a wall in the the Calais, France, “Jungle camp”. It shows Steve Jobs, the son of Syrian migrants, with an early Apple design. Over the design, someone has now painted the lettering 'London Calling'. Calais council had pledged to preserve Banksy's work from vandalism.

The Galician beach of Las Catedrales, a natural monument of sand and rocks sculpted by the sea, is visited every year by thousands of tourists (more than 300,000 in summer), which produces an overcrowding of people that deteriorates the natural space, garbage, vehicle thefts, queues for the visit since access to the beach can only be done at low tide.

A bed mattress and a teddy bear abandoned as trash in the old city of Barcelona. On the mattress, a neighbor left a note asking him to leave the public space.

The banks of the Douro, both on the Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia sides, are one of the busiest tourist attractions in Porto. The old fishing neighborhood maintained its natural idiosyncrasy without new construction, which gives it a classic air of the best architectural style in Portugal, with wine cellars, bars and restaurants, but also very crowded.

The playing spaces in the cities where we got to the ground where they were before the valleys or the rocks. Municipal policies depend on protecting the environment and recovering space for space and maintaining the quality of life, protecting the cement that invades green areas.

A fishing boat that once sailed the great seas was installed in a traffic roundabout, which led to a neighborhood protest denounced as ugly and unnecessary. Against the will of the neighborhood, the mayor carried out this aberration of the urban landscape by removing the ship from the sea (where it should be or in a museum) committing a great environmental impact on the environment. A tribute to the fishermen is always deserved and honorable, but when a politician does not listen to the people he stops being a good politician.

Regional bus stop covered by the natural undergrowth of the area, on a road.

Indiscriminate felling of trees by order of the mayor. Located on a central street in the city of Vigo, and based on the fact that the leaves of the trees were bothering some neighbors (not proven), the city council ordered to cut down all the trees to build a metal frame in the middle of the median. which escalators were installed to serve El Corte Inglés, a large shopping area. Despite citizen protests, and some arrests and fines, the work was carried out and caused an urban aberration with a great environmental impact.

Arquitecto: Antonio Román Conde
Año: 1969
Localización: Parroquia de Sampaio Navia