The palette

White quartz and sea-green prismarine with gold: smooth quartz, quartz bricks, quartz pillars and quartz stairs for the steps, columns and arches; prismarine bricks and dark prismarine for the floor, the dome's ribs and rings; gold for the bands and the finial; water, a beacon and soul lanterns for the light.

Techniques

• Build in circles
• Arches on a ring
• An open dome
• Water and light

The steps

1. Three round steps
2. Floor and the pool's curb
3. Altar
4. Column bases
5. Slender columns
6. Carved capitals
7. Arches between the columns
8. Entablature with golden bands
9. Dome ribs
10. Rings laced between the ribs
11. Oculus and golden finial
12. The still pool and the beacon
13. Lights between the columns

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