The palette

Stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, cobblestone, mossy cobblestone and polished andesite for the battered base, stone brick stairs for its edges and steps, chiseled stone bricks for the pier tops; dark oak logs for the four legs; stripped spruce logs for the girts, spruce stairs for the diagonal braces and the stair; spruce and dark oak planks for the deck, stripped spruce wood for its rim, the top rail and the drum, stripped spruce logs for the roof posts, dark oak and spruce fences; dark oak stairs and planks for the shingles, spruce for the pale rims; gold block and bamboo stairs for the gilded tip and the weathervane; polished blackstone and iron bars for the brazier.

Techniques

• Legs that step in
• A lattice of braces
• A platform that juts out
• A two-tier cap
• A battered stone base

The steps

1. Battered stone base
2. Stone piers under the four legs
3. First stage: four splayed legs on the piers
4. Stage 2: the legs step in
5. Stage 3: the legs step in
6. Stage 4: the legs step in
7. Stage 5: the legs step in
8. Last stage: the legs meet the platform
9. Square stair winding round an open well
10. Joists and brackets under the platform
11. Octagonal platform deck
12. Railing and the eight roof posts
13. The signal-fire balcony and its iron brazier
14. Flared skirt roof with a pale spruce rim
15. Drum with louvres between the two roofs
16. Pointed spire of dark shingles, its tip gilded
17. Carved finial: a gilded weathervane and a dragon head
18. Lanterns and the signal fire

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