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Not unlike the entrance to the Aquarium at Highland Park that I built last year, this temple-like structure is mostly a glorified entrance to the facilities located below it, in this case a restaurant with two salons in the manner of the Palm House restaurant in the conservatory-type structure in the same park. From the outside, the glass-enclosed structure resembles the typical pavilions found in public "pleasure gardens" of the 19th century, and has practical function of housing a wide array of colorful flowers that are understood to otherwise not be able to tolerate the harsh weather of the tundra, hence the name of the building. The use of the same temple design that I used last year in Highland Park creates, in my opinion, a coherent landscape for the North Side, as it is now enclosed on its south and east borders by two large parks with similar landscaping. Not all, but most streets and avenues of the North Side have very pleasing terminating vistas in similar themes, and this structure serves that purpose for the south terminus of 21st Street.

An interesting read for context is Pavilion - History of Early American Landscape Design

Its called that because there is an underground river running below part of it, parallel to 6th Avenue, that was reinforced as the park was built on top; what took the most time was getting an individual powerline to feed a light detector in the park itself to control the lights and setting up all the redstone, but I am happy with the result, as all the lights flicker on at dusk. New venues are being added to the several existing stores lining the underground street under the park—with a large underground stable complex for parking horses—and like the existing restaurant, the new spaces will have natural light with large copper skylights and a marble entrance to integrate the different layers of the city. It’s worth noting that upon finishing the underground street under the park, the sublevel system reached 18th St effectively looping back to the start of the tunnel system, begun in early 2025. The massive underground loop encircles the entire old part of the city and stretches several blocks beyond in different directions.

It took me the whole week to build this one because of the small size of the lot in a city block that already has space taken up by the trees that line 22nd Avenue and with a redstone substation in the middle, that surrounds the house with redstone lines on two sides. To further complicate things, the nearest sewage pipe was behind the redstone lines, so I had to make an extension that forced me to do two blocks of sewage main--the good thing is that the few empty lots remaining in this neighborhood all have sewage and redstone accesible. The house itself has a semibasement and three surface floors, with staff quarters, a workshop and the kitchen (with a large pantry) in the basement, as well as a direct entrance from 24th St for the staff and a separate staircase connecting all the floors; the first floor has the main entrance hall, with a WC and the entrance to the living room off a vestibule, and the dining room en suite with the living room, both rooms have fireplaces and staggering 7.5 meter ceilings; the second floor has an arrangement of three large rooms en suite arranged as a master suite, off the staircase landing (with a fireplace) there is a boudoir connected to the toilet and to two interconnected rooms containing a sitting room first and the bedroom after crossing a 5.5m tall arch, with a vestibule at the core connecting all the rooms and shortening the trip to the toilet from the bed at night; the third floor has four decently sized bedrooms and a smaller one for an hypothetical nanny, as well as a toilet and the staff staircase that continues to the roof.

Very large single family townhouse in the corner of 22nd Avenue and 5th St, its main features are a massive dining room with two bay windows overlooking 22nd on the second floor and a very large and versatile sitting room suite on the third floor. The fourth floor has three comfortable bedrooms and a WC connected to the city sewage system, a fixture present on every floor, including one in the basement for the staff. The first floor has a reception room with entrances to 22nd Avenue and a porte cochere, that leads to the marble staircase that connects every floor in the building, except the basement that is accessed from the separate service staircase and an additional flight leading directly into the kitchen to ensure food arrives as promptly as possible to the dining room.