Chapter 902 Empire State Building
While East Africa is undergoing a new round of vigorous construction, the pace of development of the newly planned city of Rhine City has not slowed down.
“The East African Empire People’s Building, referred to as the Empire State Building, covers an area of 130,000 square meters. It refers to the characteristics of parliamentary buildings in Germany, Austria and other countries, and refers to the design to gain the best of hundreds of experts.”
The Empire State Building, also known as the National Assembly Building of East Africa, is one of the key projects of the Rhine City. However, there is currently no parliament in East Africa. After all, there is no such demand in East Africa.
William II even cried about this. Of course, with the development of East African countries, parliament is obviously an indispensable key power organ.
In fact, at the beginning, William II had a positive attitude towards parliament. However, after he came to power completely, that is, after 1892, parliament became an institution that restricted power that he hated extremely.
This is clearly reflected in his exchange of letters with Ernst. In this regard, Ernst could only say that Wilhelm II was a straight man and never acted falsely, otherwise he would not As for always offending people in the international community.
But Ernst's attitude was much calmer. Monarchy was definitely not a long-term solution, so the construction of the East African Empire State Building began.
Because of this, the East African Empire State Building under planning and construction in Rhine City is one of the key landmark buildings in Rhine City. Its architectural features are highly similar to those of Germany and Austria.
However, in terms of specific details, it is more inclined to the style of the German Parliament Building, which mainly reflects the solemn and solemn characteristics and the style of a big country in East Africa. In this regard, Ernst believes that the British Parliament is more prominent, but the British Parliament building is too solemn. The solemnity gave Ernst a gloomy feeling, which was not good.
Of course, when it comes to architectural aesthetics, the Winter Palace in Tsarist Russia was indeed superior, but it was too magnificent for Ernst's liking.
Of course, the Winter Palace is not a parliament. As autocratic monarchies, Tsarist Russia and East Africa currently do not have parliaments.
Historically, the Tsar opened Russia's first parliament, the Russian "Duma", in 1906 under pressure.
In front of the Empire State Building is a wide lawn. This is because the German plan was chosen, because the most conspicuous sculptures and fountains in front of the Vienna Parliament are sculptures and fountains.
To sum up, the Empire State Building in East Africa can be regarded as an upgraded version of the German National Parliament Building. After all, East Africa, as a country with a large population and land area, has a more grand parliamentary construction than other countries.
As early as the 1890 census, the population of East Africa had surpassed that of Germany, and the future population growth rate and size of East Africa will definitely still exceed that of Germany.
The administrative district of Rhine City was chosen to be in the northeastern part of the city instead of the city center area. First of all, from the perspective of environment and scenery, the northeastern part of the city is close to the Rensemfoy River, and Rensemfoy The river flows from north to south, so the administrative district must choose the upper reaches of the river to ensure both abundant water sources and pure water quality.
Secondly, after the construction of a reservoir on the Rensemfowa River in the future, a large artificial lake will inevitably form in the east, and future urban development will inevitably expand to the lake area.
Cities in later generations like to build artificial lakes. One of the important reasons is to alleviate the local urban heat island effect. Water has a large specific heat capacity. When the temperature is high, the lake water evaporates and absorbs heat, consuming part of the heat in the air. Play a role in regulating climate.
And the common feature of most artificial lakes is the diversification of surrounding functions, such as commerce, business, hotels, residence, administration, medical care, tourism, transportation... Many artificial lakes are involved in the surrounding areas, it can be said that Artificial lakes or green spaces around lakes also integrate these different functions more smoothly.
There are many advantages, so the location selection of the administrative district of Rhine City naturally gives priority to occupying the city's optimal land resources.
“As a city, the Rhine City itself has its own administrative system, but as the national administrative center, the Rhine City has two administrative systems with different focuses. Therefore, in the future, the Rhine City Government and agencies will It will focus on the southwest of the country's administrative regions. "Although the positioning of the capital city is relatively special, it cannot change the fact that the Berlin Municipal Government is not the central government of Germany. The same is true in East Africa. The primary purpose of the municipal government and its related urban governance institutions is to serve the city. .
The National Administrative Center serves the whole country, so there is a big difference between the two. In this way, the Rhine City government agencies are closer to the central area of the city, which facilitates urban governance and Serve surrounding citizens.
“In addition to administration, the functions of the capital focus on science, education, culture and health. At the same time, according to the requirements of the crown prince, it also focuses more on transportation and economy than the first towns and cities.”
Of course, there is another aspect that Ernst did not mention, and that is the tourism function of the capital. The capital of a country naturally has cultural and tourism attributes. However, in the current era, tourism is not taken seriously, so the Rhine City must advance Layout for this purpose.
However, this is more difficult for East Africa, because East Africa is a country without historical heritage.
For example, even if the capital of the Far Eastern Empire is not the political center of the country, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and other historical monuments can still attract people to visit.
Even in Europe, London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, etc. all have their own characteristics. On the other hand, Washington in the United States and Brasilia in Brazil were not very prominent in previous lives.
In this way, if the Rhine City in East Africa wants to become a tourism hotspot, it can only achieve it through "spectacles" in the future.
Brasilia is a typical example of this. The airplane outline of the city of Brasilia is relatively famous in the world, but this outline can only be seen from a high altitude. Even if you go to Brasilia, it is difficult to intuitively reflect it. Moreover, the outline of Brasilia is Although this kind of urban design is unique, it also has many obvious shortcomings, especially the unreasonable forced functional zoning, which makes life inconvenient.
As for Washington, to be honest, the popularity is entirely due to the strong national power of the United States in its previous life. If the United States were an unknown Caribbean island country like St. Vincent and the Grenadines, then who would care about where Washington is!
This is true for the United States and Brazil, not to mention East Africa, a country with a history of just over thirty years. Of course, the history of indigenous African civilization is not short, but the civilization of American Indians is relatively backward. African indigenous civilizations are relatively backward. Civilization is even more backward. American countries can still play the Indian civilization card, but East Africa cannot even play the black card.
It is impossible to compare a mud branch house that is not even a shack with the Indian "pyramid". As for the Arab buildings and relics left in East Africa, a considerable part of them have been destroyed by East Africa, that is, Zanzi There are still remains on Bal Island.
In addition, the oldest buildings in East Africa were left by the Portuguese. There is no need to demolish these, as they are still trophies of East Africa.
Therefore, one of the importance of the Reich Volksbühne is that it can add a wonder to the Rhine City. The Empire represents the attributes of the East African monarchy, and the word "people" was added by Ernst.
It represents East Africa’s ambitions and the direction of the country’s future democratization. East Africa is still a kingdom now. Ernst is definitely not satisfied with this level, and will upgrade the kingdom to an empire based on East Africa’s current national strength. The basic conditions have been met, and the empire is worthy of the status of a great power in East Africa.
Otherwise, the so-called "proclaiming emperor" like that of the Japanese and Vietnamese royal families would have the meaning of "sitting like a monkey". Ernst only had "the title of emperor" after he completely turned East Africa into a world power. "Proclaim yourself emperor" idea. Countries like Japan and Vietnam, which are not even considered regional powers, seem a bit ridiculous.
Of course, through its victory in the Far East War, Japan has barely squeezed into the ranks of regional powers, but in Ernst's view, it has also lowered the value of the word "emperor".
(End of this chapter)