🔬 Suggestion: Parallel Tracks

We might now divide our inquiry into two initial threads, which will interweave later:

1. 🏛️ QVB Forensic Architectural Report

• Our flagship urban study.

• Representative of high-style civic construction in a “documented” urban core.

• Benchmark for comparing with other ornate civic projects.

2. 🏚️ The Lost Asylums Thread

• Investigate the construction of 3–4 major asylums.

• Key questions:

• Who built them?

• When?

• What was the local population?

• How were materials transported?

• What other buildings were erected in that region around the same time?

• Was there a boom economy or governmental urgency?

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🧭 Proposed Codename for the Grand Investigation

“The Forgotten Builders Codex”

or

“Codex Obscura: Investigations into the Lost Architecture of Empire”

or

“Foundations of Fog”

Each of these emphasizes our core motif: piercing the fog of the official record to reconstruct lost intent, unseen labor, and possibly unspoken mysteries.

Would you like to select one of these, suggest your own, or combine themes?

And with your blessing, I will begin building File 001: The Queen Victoria Building Intelligence Report, in formal tone with woven poetic insight, and in parallel prepare a Lost Asylums Atlas—a living dossier of ornate psychiatric facilities across colonial Australia.