The palette

Packed ice and blue ice for the walls, the towers and the onion domes; smooth quartz, quartz bricks, quartz pillars and chiseled quartz for the terrace edge, the pilasters, the bands, the cornices and the arch rings, smooth quartz stairs and slabs for the cornices and the snow on the domes' steps; snow for the terrace and the roofs; light blue stained glass and panes for the windows and the doors, lit by sea lanterns behind; diamond blocks for keystones and the needles' crowns; end rods for the icicles and the needles of light; ice for the frozen pool, soul lanterns at the stair.

Techniques

• White quartz on blue ice
• Icicle cornices
• Onion domes frosted with snow
• Towers that glow from within
• A frozen cascade

The steps

1. Terrace of packed ice and quartz
2. Grand stair and its frozen cascade
3. Great hall: walls of packed and blue ice
4. Entrance arch in two rings, its icicles
5. Frost rose over the arch
6. Clerestory windows
7. Hall roof and its icicle cornice
8. Wings: ice walls and quartz pilasters
9. Wings: arched windows glowing cold
10. Wing roofs and their spiky parapets
11. White drum lit from within
12. Onion dome of ice, frosted with quartz
13. Needle of light
14. Slender ice towers, glowing cores
15. Tower cornices and their icicles
16. Onion domes and spikes on the towers

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