The palette

White quartz and diorite, nothing else but gold on the tips and green cypresses round it. All-white builds rely on shapes and shadows; small changes of texture (pillars, bricks, chiseled blocks) draw the details.

Techniques

• Perfect symmetry
• White on white
• Iwans
• Onion dome
• Minarets
• Garden on an axis

The steps

1. Plinth
2. Marble terrace
3. Front stairs
4. Hall walls
5. Hall walls
6. Hall walls: top
7. Iwans
8. Roof
9. Parapet and pinnacles
10. Roof kiosks
11. Drum
12. Onion dome: the bulb
13. Onion dome
14. Onion dome: the point
15. Golden finial
16. Minarets
17. Minarets: upper
18. Minaret kiosks
19. Dig the reflecting pool
20. Pool and marble walks
21. Fountain
22. Cypress rows
23. Lawns and flower beds
24. Lanterns

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