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The apartment building at Schlagenbader Straße is Berlin's weirdest apartment building. It's in the borough of Steglitz and has an entire Autobahn running through it -- the A104 from Wilmersdorf to Steglitz. Residents call it Die Schlange -- THE SNAKE.

At 46 meters tall and 600 meters long, it's one of the longest contiguous apartment buildings in Berlin and was built on mid-century archtiectural theories that said massive, high-density housing would be the way to urban happiness. Turns out, it was just the key to toxic anonymity, which led to crime and, in Germany's case, bad hip-hop.

Its owners, a Berlin government housing authority, has spent millions upgrading it and it's now not so bad, really. There's nearly 1,800 apartments with 120 different floorplans and I'd love to take a tour of one of the apartments. Maybe I'll apply and act like a potential renter some time.

But I can do without a living room with a speed limit.

Filmed on my Google Pixel 4a.