The tower rises with an almost impo...

The tower rises with an almost impossible scale, a colossal stepped structure of pale sun-baked stone, widening massively at the bottom and tightening as it climbs into the sky. Its form is both geometric and organic: each tier is carefully ordered, yet the entire building seems to twist upward in a single continuous motion. A broad spiral ramp wraps around it from base to summit, circling the tower again and again like a carved ribbon of masonry, making the whole structure look as though it is slowly winding itself toward heaven. The lowest levels are immense and fortress-like, built from enormous blocks in warm tones of limestone, sandstone, and dusty beige clay, their surfaces dulled by heat, wind, and age. Along every face of the tower run deep rows of arched openings, dark with shado