Chapter 902 Empire State Building

While East Africa is undergoing a new round of vigorous construction, the 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 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, drawing on the strengths of hundreds of schools."

The Empire Building, also known as the East African National Parliament Building, is one of the key projects of Rhine City. At present, there is no parliament in East Africa. After all, there is no need for it in East Africa.

For this, William II was crying with envy. Of course, with the development of East African countries, parliament is obviously an indispensable key authority.

In fact, William II had a positive attitude towards parliament at the beginning, but after he came to power completely, that is, after 1892, parliament became a power-constraining institution that he hated.

This is clearly reflected in his correspondence with Ernst. In this regard, Ernst can only say that William II is a straight-forward person who never speaks falsely, otherwise he would not always offend people in the international community.

But Ernst's attitude was much calmer. Absolute monarchy is definitely not a long-term solution, so the East African Empire Building was built.

And because of this, the East African Empire Building, which is planned and constructed in Rhine City, is one of the key landmark buildings in Rhine City, and 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 characteristics and the great power style of East Africa. In this regard, Ernst believes that the British Parliament is more prominent, but the British Parliament building is too solemn, which gives Ernst a gloomy feeling, which is not good.

Of course, when it comes to architectural aesthetics, the Winter Palace of Tsarist Russia is indeed better, but it is too magnificent, which is not liked by Ernst.

Of course, the Winter Palace is not a parliament. As a monarchy, Tsarist Russia and East Africa currently have no parliament.

Historically, the Tsar was forced to open the first Russian parliament, the Russian "Duma", in 1906.

In front of the Empire State Building, there is a wide lawn. This is the German solution, because the most conspicuous things in front of the Vienna Parliament are the sculptures and fountains.

In summary, the Empire State Building in East Africa can be seen as an upgraded version of the German National Assembly Building. After all, as a country with a large population and land area, East Africa is more majestic than ordinary countries in terms of parliamentary construction.

As early as the 1890 census, the population of East Africa had surpassed Germany, and the population growth rate and scale of East Africa in the future will definitely be higher than that of Germany.

The administrative district of Rhine City was chosen in the northeastern part of the city, rather than the city center. First of all, from the perspective of environment and scenery, the northeastern part of the city is close to the Rensemfuwa River, and the Rensemfuwa River flows from north to south, so the administrative district must choose the upstream area of ​​the river, which can ensure both abundant water sources and pure water quality.

Secondly, after the construction of the Rensemfuwa River reservoir in the future, a large artificial lake will inevitably form in the east, and future urban development will inevitably expand to the lake area.

One of the important reasons why later cities like to build artificial lakes 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 and playing a role in regulating the climate.

And the common feature of most artificial lakes is the diversification of surrounding functions, including commerce, business, hotels, residence, administration, medical care, tourism, transportation... Many artificial lakes are involved in the surrounding areas. It can be said that the green space around artificial lakes or lakes also integrates these different functions more smoothly.

There are many advantages, so the location of the administrative district of Rhine City naturally has to give priority to occupying the best land resources in the city.

"As a city, Rhine City itself has its own administrative system, but Rhine City is the national administrative center, so Rhine City has two administrative systems with different focuses. Therefore, in the future, the Rhine City government and agencies will focus on the southwest of the national administrative district."

Although the positioning of the capital city is relatively special, it cannot change the fact that the Berlin City Government is not the central government of Germany. The same is true in East Africa. The primary purpose of the city government and its related urban governance agencies 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 government office of Rhine City is closer to the central area of ​​the city, which is convenient for urban governance and serving the 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 town."

Of course, Ernst did not mention another level, that is, the tourism function of the capital. The capital of a country itself naturally has cultural and tourism attributes, but in the current era, the tourism industry is not valued, so Rhine City must plan for this in advance.

However, this is more difficult for East Africa, because East Africa is a country without historical heritage.

For example, the capital of the Far East Empire, even if it is not the national political center, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and other historical sites can attract people to visit.

Even in Europe, London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, etc. have their own characteristics, while Washington in the United States and Brasilia in Brazil were not very prominent in the previous life.

In this way, if the Rhine City in East Africa wants to become a hot spot for tourism, it can only be achieved through "spectacles" in the future.

Brasilia is a typical example. The airplane outline of Brasilia is well-known in the world, but this outline can only be overlooked from a high altitude. Even if you go to Brasilia, it is difficult to intuitively reflect it. Moreover, although the city design of Brasilia is unique, it has many obvious shortcomings, especially the unreasonable mandatory functional zoning, which leads to inconvenience in life.

As for Washington, to be honest, a little bit of heat is completely caused by the strong national strength of the United States in the past life. If the United States is an unknown Caribbean island country like St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who would pay attention to where Washington is!

The United States and Brazil are still like this, not to mention East Africa, a country with only more than 30 years of history. Of course, the history of African indigenous civilization is not short, but the American Indian civilization is relatively backward, and the African indigenous civilization is even more backward. American countries can still play the Indian civilization card, but East Africa can't even play the black card.

It is impossible to compare mud and branch houses, which are not even shacks, with the Indian "pyramids". As for the Arab buildings and relics left in East Africa, a considerable part of them have been destroyed by East Africa, and only Zanzibar Island still has some relics.

In addition, the oldest buildings in East Africa are those left by the Portuguese. There is no need to demolish them, as they are still spoils of war in East Africa.

Therefore, one of the importance of the Imperial People's Building is that it can add a wonder to the city of Rhine. The Empire represents the attributes of the monarchy in East Africa, and the word "people" was added by Ernst.

It represents East Africa's ambitions and the future direction of democratization. East Africa is still a kingdom now. Ernst is definitely not satisfied with this level. Moreover, according to East Africa's current national strength, the basic conditions for upgrading the kingdom to an empire have been met, and the empire is in line with East Africa's status as a great power.

Otherwise, the so-called "proclaiming the emperor" like the royal families of Japan and Vietnam would have the meaning of "monkeys wearing a crown". Ernst only had the idea of ​​"proclaiming the emperor" after he completely turned East Africa into a world power. Countries like Japan and Vietnam, which are not even regional powers, seem a bit ridiculous.

Of course, Japan has barely squeezed into the ranks of regional powers through its victory in the Far East War, but in Ernst's view, this has also lowered the value of the word "emperor".