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A couple of years ago Richard Meier's website was offhand off·hand  
adv.
Without preparation or forethought; extemporaneously.

adj. also off·hand·ed
Performed or expressed without preparation or forethought. See Synonyms at extemporaneous.
 to a degree--as we described it then, 'infrequently tended'. Now it has been revamped with quite a lot of changing and zooming images, elegantly arranged text, lots of white, like the architecture, and utterly simple and accessible. Projects can be checked out alphabetically or by date or type. Click on 66 and, following a brief period, measured by a horizontally sliding bar mapping loading time, up pops a Golden Section box with a square image of this New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 restaurant on the left and the explanatory text in sans serif Short horizontal lines added to the tops and bottoms of traditional typefaces, such as Times Roman. Contrast with sans-serif.

 on the right. You can view two more images of the same place, deploy an unobtrusively dotted grey-on-white slider A block of material that holds the read/write head of a magnetic disk. See flying head.  to read more text--and, where the previous text was a tad florid florid /flor·id/ (flor´id)
1. in full bloom; occurring in fully developed form.

2. having a bright red color.


flor·id
adj.
Of a bright red or ruddy color.
, this is pretty much plain and descriptive. You can also click on a bibliography to see where to read reviews. Michael Palladino runs the West Coast office. If only his parents had left off the n and called him Andy. But then he might have become a dentist.
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Title Annotation:Browser; Richard Meier and Partners revamped website
Publication:The Architectural Review
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 1, 2003
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