The New York Public Library is a stunning piece of architecture. Its Rose Reading Room has 51-foot ceilings and measures the length of a football field (that’s more than a Manhattan block), yet it has no columns, making it one of the largest open interiors in the world.

If you’re Nate Bolt–Facebook design researcher, amateur filmmaker, and friend of the NYPL’s skunkworks team–you get invited to fly a drone through the space. Bolt shot the video you see here using an ultralight setup–a DJI Phantom quadcopter drone loaded with a GoPro and aniPhone. That’s roughly $1,500 in equipment weighing just a bit over two pounds. It allowed Bolt to film with a god-like perspective as the camera floats over shoulders and through doorways to explore the nuance of such grand architecture.

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