A Palace That Redrew a City
A six-minute architectural history excerpt that turns a monumental building into a map of urban displacement and resource use.
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Why it works
The 0:00–0:43 opening scales from a single illuminated building to an entire urban plan. A 2:03–2:15 overhead view turns the seemingly safe construction site into an occupied neighborhood, matching the strongest replay peak; at 5:26–5:37, five roughly two-second material shots accelerate a heavy numerical list.
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