Then the piece de resistance: towering above the 1, 000 columns outside is the glistening main white marble dome.
The glistening white marble and the swirling, minaret-like towers never fail to impress.
The 1911 structure opens into a grand white marble reception hall with large public rooms for entertaining.
Striped carpets on the stairs and in the bedrooms complement the original herringbone-wood and black-and-white marble floors.
The hotel's main building boasts a 6, 500-square-foot white marble lobby, replete with burbling fountain and crystal chandeliers.
The chandeliers and the white marble floors were glistening, and the staff stood at attention, greeting guests.
The facade is austere white marble and black granite, with a towering auditorium rising above the main building.
The white marble statue was unveiled by the former prime minister, who is originally from Grantham, in 2002.
He had a mausoleum built of white marble and decorated with gold leaf.
The white marble statue was unveiled by the former prime minister in 2002, but later attacked and eventually restored.
Ms. Jin also hand-selected white marble, imported from Italy, for some of the floors and columns on the first floor.
They have lofty titles and work in buildings made of white marble.
From here they stroll across a vast indoor expanse of white marble to the Eisraum and rub man-made snow onto their steaming bodies.
The real showstopper, however, was the bath, with its vanilla- colored tile walls, black-and-white marble floor, enormous terrazzo soaking tub and huge stall shower.
Mumtaz Mahal's white marble casket sits dead center inside the tomb.
In the centre of the soccer-pitch-sized interior courtyard stands a similarly outsized white marble lectern, an almost ethereal sight among the falled buttresses and overgrown weeds.
All rooms have oversized workspaces, bright bathrooms and floor to ceiling windows, and the corner rooms have views of the imposing white marble Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
The floor is sprinkled with signs of the zodiac and bisected by a line of white marble onto which a sun ray falls each day at noon.
It is the colour that stands out: a milky white marble with gold atop the domes and a vast marble courtyard that blinds you in the midday sun.
Mr Quinn's sculpture is to be made in white marble.
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We unified all three with a 13-foot-long white marble countertop.
The gleaming white marble mosque conceived by the late Sheikh Zayed boasts a 61, 354-square-foot hand-knotted prayer carpet, 82 domes of various sizes and several reflective artificial lakes surrounding the structure.
In February, Grantham Museum manager Jayne Robb was suspended for "erroneously" claiming the museum been offered a white marble statue of Margaret Thatcher, which was unveiled by the former prime minister in 2002.
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Nor were they likely to in the near future, given the task ahead, and the sight from our window of the thousands of pilgrims milling around the white marble of the Grand Mosque.
Its dazzling white marble roof is a walkable, tilted plane that slips into the Oslo fjord at the building's lowest point, rising from the harbor's edge as a series of angled, switchback surfaces to the structure's top.
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Here, she stands atop a flowing wave of red and white marble, and emerging from beneath her is the winged skeleton of Death, holding aloft an hourglass: a terrifying memento mori hidden in this setting of religious beauty.
But nowhere has Congress's penchant for inefficiency been more manifest than in the new Capitol Visitor Centre, a 580, 000 square foot (54, 000 square metre) subterranean hall lined in white marble, which has just opened next to the Capitol itself.
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On a recent Saturday night, when the Upper West Side yuppie contingent made up a majority of the patrons, there were strollers parked beside the white marble tables, and a waitress cheerfully accommodated a party that wanted to crowd in extra seats.
With its gleaming white marble floor, minimalist decor and crew of white-gloved waiters bearing trays of lemon tea, the sales office at Lodha Fiorenza looks more like a plush salon than something makeshift on a construction site where a tall crane stands next to half-finished towers.
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