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The Penn Station: How America Destroyed the most Beautiful Building they had

2026-06-13 · 19:28 UTC ·Sebastian von Thaden ·0 min read

Brief

Sebastian von Thaden’s YouTube presentation (published 2026-06-13) is a narrated, hand-scripted demo that uses Google’s AI to bring the demolished original Penn Station visually back to life. The video mixes AI-generated reconstructions with manual post-editing, advocates for architectural preservation, and asks viewers to share the film and subscribe while soliciting comments on the reconstruction.

Why it matters

Sebastian von Thaden (German architect and university lecturer) published a YouTube presentation on 2026-06-13 titled “The Penn Station: How America Destroyed the most Beautiful Building they had” (URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_6RFXacAk).

Key details

  • The video is a narrated presentation that uses Google’s AI to visually recreate historic Penn Station; the author says the piece is hand-scripted and manually post-edited and asks viewers to share the video and subscribe to support preservation of architectural beauty.
  • The creator frames the work as an advocacy piece—urging viewers to “fight for beauty”—and invites feedback in the comments about the AI-driven historical reconstruction.
Source evidence

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

Let’s fight for beauty!

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 !

Channel: Sebastian von Thaden
Published: 2026-06-13
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_6RFXacAk