The House of royal Magnificence ("HM")
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The Royal Majesty has viewed with satisfaction the increase of the building mass of The Prince of OZ and the plans for such by The Prince of New Liberty. We do not want in any way to hinder the Princes' effort to raise their building wealth to match the King or even exceed it. Nevertheless, we have felt that the Magnificence of our Royal Majesty has for long needed more opulent premises than the old palace. Therefore,
To celebrate the centenary of laying of the cornerstone of the Town (this year) and that of the Royal Palace of Malla (2 years from now), we build and inaugurate the
House of Royal Magnificence in 2-C-A1
to spread the limits of our construction skills further than ever before. The following records are made:
- Most gold used in a single building (8,190)
- Highest price per sqm (1.1 million)
- Highest total price (1.9 billion)
- Highest inner height (25 m)
- Largest hall (area = 548 sqm; l & w max = 26 m; h max = 25 m)
- Largest columns used in construction (8 columns 3x2 in size, 21 m high each)
- Largest windows (10 windows with the size of 26 sqm each)
- Largest total window area (obviously... 422 sqm)
- Most expensive staircase (32 million, incl gilding labor, not incl gold, lux nor tax)
- Highest elevation between adjacent floors (13 m)
- Highest staircase (12 m in 4 flights)
- Largest dome constructed (201 sqm inner area, 509 sqm gilded exterior, 30 m apex height)
- Lowest number of taxable floors in such a building (2).
Now we feel confident to give the Princes a friendly exhortation that they may build
whatever they like and there is no reason to fear that the Magnificence of the King is violated. Our next great project, the Château of Versailles, will be built in the next century, unless the emphasis of our magnificence prompts a more urgent schedule of course...