The Man Who Awoke by Laurence Manning

Before them towered the great encircling wall, and they passed through the gate and into the broad streets, flanked with architecture such as Winters had never dreamed possible. Here was progress! The entire city had been designed as a unit. At the center rose the huge and graceful fretwork of the dream palace. Its overall shape was roughly pyramidal, but by blending color and form this was not at once apparent-the eye merely felt a vague symmetry which reason later could make clear. Ten thousand pinnacles lent their frosty points to form the whole, and flying buttresses and airy bridges lightened the effect and made the building seem unreal and as unsubstantial as froth.

The entire structure was made of colored glass-not transparent, but in opaque pastel shades. Leading up to this breathtaking center, lesser buildings flanked the street and certainly gave the general effect of being part of one design, though Winters could not at first understand how this was done, for no two buildings were similar in form.