The readability has been much improved, though the idiosyncratic layout remains.
Browsers and book addicts will probably adore it; others may balk at the idiosyncratic layout and lack of labelling.
Until the 1920s, when the development of die-cut technology allowed for the shaping and cutting of thin metal alloy, signs were often idiosyncratic, with layouts and typefaces varying by city and region.
Idiosyncratic structure, layout and syntax also blunt the book's appeal, as does its gentle treatment of Boris Berezovsky, a prominent tycoon in the 1990s who now lives in exile in London.
Others noted the contrast between New York's neatly ordered street grid and the idiosyncratic, organically-grown layouts of Berlin and London.
Reconceiving these and other gaps, Mr. Chipperfield copied the original proportions of Stüler's rooms, which are beautiful, and also stuck with Stüler's idiosyncratic but elegant layout, which appears symmetrical but isn't.
"His approach, because he had gotten the money for it, and no one could say no to him, was very idiosyncratic," said Kenneth Wiatrak, a layout artist on the project.
Mr. Eisen of Cushman & Wakefield said the building's layout was too idiosyncratic to qualify as "Class A office space," but that it had charm for renters who did not want "plain vanilla".
Each issue focuses on a specific street in a specific city across the globe, then explores each locale through idiosyncratic interviews, photo essays (with off-kilter layouts), poetry, illustrations, and even more abstract stylistic devices.
After opening up the layout, and adding chocolate-brown walls and idiosyncratic design details, Mr. Kravitz listed the place at $19.5 million, far more than he had listed it for intermittently several years before.
People are idiosyncratic.
