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The Penn Station: How America Destroyed its most Beautiful Building

2026-07-04 · 19:38 UTC ·Sebastian von Thaden ·0 min read

Brief

The Penn Station: How America Destroyed its most Beautiful Building is a short documentary-style presentation by German architect and lecturer Sebastian von Thaden (published July 4, 2026). The video uses Google's AI to bring the original Penn Station to life, remains hand-scripted and manually post-edited, and invites viewers to share and recreate the reconstruction.

Why it matters

'The Penn Station: How America Destroyed its most Beautiful Building' is a documentary-style YouTube presentation by Sebastian von Thaden, a German architect and university lecturer, published July 4, 2026 (video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW-sRxzVMLk).

Key details

  • Production detail: This is von Thaden's first video using Google's AI to animate the historical building; the piece was still hand-scripted and manually post-edited, and he asks viewers to share the video and try to 'recreate this beauty.'
Source evidence

Watch the whole video on my channel

If you want to recreate this beauty, please share this video wherever you can!

I am Sebastian, a German Architect and University Lecturer.

Please subscribe me!

This is the first video I use Google's AI
to make the Historical Building become alive.
I am far not there what could be done with this tool.
I hope you still appreciate it :- )

(the video is still hand-scripted and manually post-edited)

Let me know in the comments what you think !

film #filmmaking #pennstation #architecture

Channel: Sebastian von Thaden
Published: 2026-07-04
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW-sRxzVMLk