Wooden Block Tower With Middle Eastern Touches

This is my 10-year-old daughter's project. It uses blocks from the Haba Extra-Large Starting Set, the no-name 82-piece Architectural Model Building Blocks (both of these are really excellent quality) and, for colorful accents, some standard colored blocks (I think Melissa and Doug).

All the steps are straightforward: the photographs say it all.

The height is about 45 inches.

I made my son a base from some scrap wood and some scrap furniture feet so that they could snap together Lego projects more easily on a carpeted floor.  The kids have since discovered it really helps with the balance of wooden block towers.

Very straightforward.  Note that the block sets didn't have four of the full-length columns and so two columns needed to be put together from separate pieces.  My daughter thinks it looks more interesting like that.

Color accents help.

The onion dome and steps are a detail to peek out between columns.

Getting narrower...

And now for the tip!  

And a guard, just in case!

It's surprisingly solid on the wooden base.  For the final pictures, I actually rotated and slid the whole assembly to a better part of the room.