Crown Bunkhouse
Misha gave the land to Irina's Hearth to build a hostel in the city, and offered to cover the costs of the building, last year. Construction has been fast, as most of the city has now been rebuilt, and it should be fit to open to visitors by the end of the year.
It is named the Crown Bunkhouse after the generous patronage of the Tsar and my brother often goes to oversee the construction whenever he can find a free moment (which unfortunately for him is not as often as he would like). He says that when it is completed he will be happy to help out whenever he can, to serve his people as best he can.
Purpose / Function
When the building work is completed, it will be one of the few purpose built hostels for Irina's Hearth.
The plans include a hospital on the ground floor and then kitchens and dormitories on the second and third floor to provide help to travellers and those displaced by the civil war. Next door, a bathhouse has already been constructed which can be accessed both from the street and from this building once it is complete.
Architecture
We decided that this building should be designed in a very different style to the rest of the city so that it stands out in the street.
The wooden support beams of the building will be painted in bright colours to make the building appear more cheerful and local children have been asked to paint the walls to make the building seem more like a permanent and integrated part of the neighbourhood rather than something new and alien that we are dropping into it.
Defenses
The building won't have any defences of its own even when it is completed, instead it will be reliant on the defences of the city which have been rebuilt after the destruction of the Battle of the Palace which destroyed most of the city.
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