The palette

Honey sandstone for the body: smooth sandstone mixed with a little plain and cut sandstone so it never looks flat, cut sandstone and calcite for the quoins and frames, smooth quartz for the ledges. Turquoise and pale blue tiles (cyan and light blue concrete) with white calcite for the patterned bands and arch heads, prismarine bricks in the iwan, gold for the mouldings, finials and the onion dome.

Techniques

• Square, octagon, circle
• Corbelled balconies
• Blind pointed arches
• Tile bands
• Iwan and pishtaq
• Onion dome

The steps

1. Stepped plinth
2. Square shaft: first storey
3. Square shaft: second storey
4. Blind arches with tiled heads
5. Gate pavilion walls
6. Iwan and its stepped half-dome
7. Pishtaq: the tiled portal frame
8. Pavilion roof, parapet and little dome
9. Stalactite cornice and corner finials
10. Octagonal shaft with glowing windows
11. First balcony on three rows of corbels
12. Round shaft with tile bands
13. Second balcony
14. Lantern stage with eight arches
15. Golden onion dome
16. Crescent finial

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