During a holiday I took for my birthday in January 2018, I visited Tenerife and discovered the beauty of the aesthetic combination of the ocean and brutalist buildings. This has fascinated me ever since, not because I disliked it, quite the opposite, but because of the unimaginable lengths that humans would go to in order to live on the “first row from the ocean”. In Tenerife, the idea that an ocean view is accessible to all felt very real, which is why even buildings that didn't seem particularly fancy could have owners living with a dream view. However, I didn't see anyone in or around those buildings; owning an apartment with an ocean view seemed like living in a ghost town.

View of a swimming pool in a hotel or apartment complex with high-rise buildings on either side, ocean in the background, and a cloudy sky.

A view of a rooftop pool area overlooking the ocean with a cloudy sky.

View of a hotel with swimming pools overlooking the ocean. The hotel has a beige exterior with balconies and glass windows, surrounded by palm trees and chairs.

View of an ocean or large body of water seen from a balcony or terrace of a building, with a concrete or stucco railing in the foreground and neighboring buildings on the sides, under a cloudy sky.

View of rooftop solar panels installed on a pink building with a chimney and a flat gray rooftop in the background.

View from a balcony showing beige building with vertical pillars, railing, and a cloudy sky over the ocean in the background.

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