The garden is a jungle of hundreds of life-sized concrete figures, painted or decorated with coloured glass and wirework.

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This creates the small compartments into which a paste of finely ground, coloured glass and water is placed.

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The basket is made from thousands of brightly coloured glass beads that have been threaded on to fine wires.

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It is made of gold-plated silver, but the jewels were fakes, with the stones around the bottom rim made from coloured glass and a foil backing.

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Other distinctive Cuban features include vitrales -- multi-coloured glass panes fitted above doorways to pleasantly diffuse the tropical sunrays -- and entresuelos, mezzanine floors built to accommodate live-in slave families.

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Built in 1566, the recently renovated Rudas baths are the most Turkish of all in Budapest, with an octagonal pool and domed cupola with coloured glass and massive columns.

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On the child's whim, Eve follows different licence plates, until out of the blue she is drawn by a whim of her own, a memory from childhood of a fairy-tale picture done in coloured broken glass stuck in a whitewashed wall.

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On the upper level of the foundry, below the glass ceiling, stand row upon row of rolls of brightly-coloured fabric.

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