In the centre of each side of the square terraces is a staircase leading to the next level.
The monument consists of a lower structure of six square terraces (including its base) and an upper structure of three circular terraces, combining the ancient symbols of the circle for the heavens and the square for the earth.
Each of the square terraces is enclosed in a high wall with pavilions and niches along the whole perimeter, which prevents the visitor on one level from seeing into any of the other levels.
Built with about 2,000,000 cubic feet (56,600 cubic metres) of gray volcanic stone, Borobudur encloses a small hill and is shaped like a stepped pyramid with three major levels a square base, a middle level of five square terraces, and an upper level of three circular terraces totaling, in effect, nine lesser sections (the number nine is mystic in Buddhism).
When Britons choose for themselves where to live and on what to spend their money, they still seek traditional streets, squares, terraces and houses, in materials such as brick, stone and wood.
Wartime damage to Brighton's grand squares, terraces and crescents was minimal, and much less than expected; nevertheless, three houses (numbers 24, 25 and 26) in the centre of the northern part of the crescent were destroyed by a bomb in 1942.
It also has a 30-square-meter (323-square-foot) terrace with planters and distant views of the Mediterranean Sea, and a six-square-meter terrace overlooking the road.
Now the Bakers have a 110-square-meter (1,184-square-foot 1,184-square-foot 1,184-square-footuding apartmentre-meter (645-square-fontheterrace overlooking the river.
A 12-square-meter (129-square-foot) terrace overlooks the river.
And a generous master-bedroom suite with a 26-square-meter (280-square-foot) terrace overlooking the pool was the final selling point.
