Cuckoo Blocks: Berlin Plattenbau goes Cuckoo Clock
April 11, 2017 10:19 AM Subscribe
On the hour Le Corbusier pops out and shouts "Machine for Living! Machine for Living!".
posted by leotrotsky at 10:30 AM on April 11, 2017 [16 favorites]
posted by leotrotsky at 10:30 AM on April 11, 2017 [16 favorites]
Holy shit. I was pretty certain until just now that I'd never lust over a cuckoo clock.
Those are the coolest things I've ever seen.
posted by Keith Talent at 10:51 AM on April 11, 2017
Those are the coolest things I've ever seen.
posted by Keith Talent at 10:51 AM on April 11, 2017
The cuckoos themselves should all be little robarts.
posted by Beardman at 11:32 AM on April 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Beardman at 11:32 AM on April 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
On the hour Le Corbusier pops out and shouts
I would so buy this.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:04 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
I would so buy this.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:04 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
I was prepared to hate them.
I won't go so far as to say I like them, but I don't hate them.
I do, however, hate Corbusier.
posted by IndigoJones at 12:09 PM on April 11, 2017
I won't go so far as to say I like them, but I don't hate them.
I do, however, hate Corbusier.
posted by IndigoJones at 12:09 PM on April 11, 2017
These clocks make me feel at home. I have watched a comet from those balconies, swatted mosquitoes on them, lost the occasional piece of drying laundry from them, and stood and heard an actual cuckoo in the distance from that bottom left balcony more than one summer morning.
posted by pracowity at 12:50 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by pracowity at 12:50 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
I do, however, hate Corbusier.
...come sit right here by me.
posted by leotrotsky at 12:53 PM on April 11, 2017
...come sit right here by me.
posted by leotrotsky at 12:53 PM on April 11, 2017
I want one! This post led me down a rabbit-hole about Plattenbau buildings in the former DDR. That would also be worthy of a FPP.
posted by fimbulvetr at 1:18 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by fimbulvetr at 1:18 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
The clocks are cool, but the buildings "inspire" people? To what, suicide?
posted by praemunire at 1:44 PM on April 11, 2017
posted by praemunire at 1:44 PM on April 11, 2017
To make awesome clocks and depressing films!
posted by dinty_moore at 1:47 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by dinty_moore at 1:47 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
Do little people come out & hang their washing on the balcony every hour?
[Want!]
posted by Pinback at 3:26 PM on April 11, 2017
[Want!]
posted by Pinback at 3:26 PM on April 11, 2017
They'd be improved if the actual clock faces were legible from more than a meter away.
posted by El Mariachi at 6:51 PM on April 11, 2017
posted by El Mariachi at 6:51 PM on April 11, 2017
I hate brutalism, but I don't hate these.
posted by FirstMateKate at 9:18 AM on April 12, 2017
posted by FirstMateKate at 9:18 AM on April 12, 2017
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