Field guide No. 159
Butterfly brutalism
Concrete, but make it flutter.
A huge concrete butterfly stands in an alpine meadow, its wings stacked with balconies and windows.
Field noteConcrete will take any shape you pour. Architects have built sillier things, if not this one.
Also possible, also breaking scale
The teabag lighthouseLighthouses stand on rocks and glow; teabags only stand in cups. The steeping is the problem.
A minor adjustmentRead charitably, a stone ball and a good caliper. Read literally, a moon somebody shrank to fit the vice.
Safety in numbersA safety pin is a bent wire and a clasp. Enlarged, it is still just that, in a lake.
Right on timeRoundhouses come as models; watches come with cases. Combined, they keep railway time precisely.