31 Fox Street

View of 31 Fox Street from the Allied Building

31 Fox Street is a 7-story building in Urbis City, Infaru. It was built by Foxcubensis and Thinqq on September 5th, 1924, and serves as Kino-Film's headquarters.

Construction

31 Fox Street started as a roofless cyan wool structure for Goodfox Incorporated with land given to Koi Goodfox by free by Novak as part of the 1924 Homeless Rebellion. Eventually, as Kino-Film was incorporated, the need for a larger building was broke ground on September 5th, 1924, along with an additional purchased plot.

Originally, the structure started as a small 3 story structure, but eventually the scope grew to a 5 story structure that extends to the Urbis train station, so another land deed was purchased and construction began.

31 Fox Street under Construction

The construction of the roof and floors 4-5 were controversial due to a large amount of Bloatian migrant workers, the equivalent of 8 Faruns, were killed. The causes of death ranged from drunken clumsiness, employees failing to wear hardhats and being crushed by anvils, and falling onto anti-homeless spikes.

A majority of Faruns supported Kino Volchok during the construction, despite the dead bloatians, however a vocal minority opposed the construction. The controversy was so bad that Kino Volchok and Vladimir Markov were sued by censor Tim Stamper, and it was ordered that construction would be ceased; however the case was dropped as negligent manslaughter wasn't actually a crime. The construction of floors 6-7 would resume.

The construction would conclude around September 12th-14th. The build would use ~4,000 brick blocks; over 2,000 granite blocks, 1500 glass panes and over 2000 stone bricks. It is possibly one of the most expensive construction projects in Faru.

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Anecdotes from the Architect

"I got the land for free from novak after the hobo rebellion. It just started as some bullshit glorified chest field made out of cyan-wool with a failed villager breeder as a basement, but when i made Kino as a character i needed space for a studio, i decided to buy another plot of land and actually develop it with Thinqq.

The design at this point was just a generically detailed classic american brick office building, kinda inspired by stuff in downtown Los Santos near that stupid abstract park. After completing a small 3 story structure (about half the length) in the 2 plots, me and thinqq new we had to go bigger.

We bought yet another plot which expanded our build to the train station, and this ended up being a great move. We always wanted to go up to 5 or 7 floors but the aspect ratio would've been fucked if we didn't expand lengthwise to, so we thank novak for that. Honestly the repetitive nature of the build kinda drove us crazy, it was soul crushing, and endless loop of buy shit from novak's shop, build the same floor again, repeat. Once novak's shop ran out, we had to go to the brick factory in providence and buy granite from xesphor. It made it a lot more miserable and time consuming but at least it broke the flow. over 4k brick blocks is no laughing matter.

The amount of warning signs and barriers we put up to avoid liability was frankly hilarious. We were really sad to take down all the scaffolding and signs at the end. I like the little underpass we did and the lobby and studio area ended up looking really cool, even though we slightly reworked it later. The corner near the train station bothers me a little bit but it's needed.

The migrant workers were mostly fabricated, we built anti-homeless spikes around the building using dripstone we stole from open caves surrounding the underground transit lines and i fell on them on purpose a bunch of times pretending it was the workers that died. I fell off the massive pieces of scaffolding too. In hindsight this was a bad move as people would take the RP seriously. I knew the lawsuit wouldn't go anywhere but, i was always worried they'd do something stupid like make me sell the building or lock me up for a real life year. I'm glad that didn't happen. I don't know why i got targeted but the Marketh skyscraper causing like 200 rp deaths never did.

After the 7th floor was finally constructed and the roof was capped, we had a very solid and malleable brick office building to work with. I added roof details reminiscent of the era like antennas, HVAC, roof access points, a fire escape, water tower, and a big sign, and i'm honestly really proud; i've never done this sort of project in Infaru and it took days to make, and the interior is STILL under construction. it's one of the best detailed buildings in urbis imo and is one of the few structures that really stick to the 1920s theme, unlike that hideous panacea known as the providence casino.

This project is really my magnum opus."

- Foxcubensis, aka Kino Volchok.

Usage

Offices in 31 Fox Street

31 Fox Street is the headquarters of Kino-Film. It features several floors, including a basement. The floors contain:

• Executive offices
• A ballroom/event space
• Offices for Kino News, including a recording studio and radio apperatus
• Offices for Kino-Film
• A movie set
• A cozy reading room
• Storage and archives