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* Bradley, Simon, and Nikolaus Pevsner.
Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".
* 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian ( d. 1983 )
* Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10571-1 ).
" Villard de Honnecourt ", essay, pp. 61 – 69, in Pevsner on Art and Architecture, by Nikolaus Pevsner, ed.
The art historian Nikolaus Pevsner has said that exhibits in the Great Exhibition showed " ignorance of that basic need in creating patterns, the integrity of the surface " and " vulgarity in detail ".
Nikolaus Pevsner refers to " the plastic shape of the temple ..... placed before us with a physical presence more intense, more alive than that of any later building ".
Nikolaus Pevsner, writing in the 1960s, referred to Gaudi's buildings as growing " like sugar loaves and anthills " and describes the ornamenting of buildings with shards of broken pottery as possibly " bad taste " but handled with vitality and " ruthless audacity ".
Nikolaus Pevsner ( writing in 1950 ) is uncertain about the dating and suggests that the Norman work has some Saxon features, while the tower may be 13th or 15th century in date.
The oak wagon roof, made up of 350 panels of different designs, separated by 396 carved foliage bosses ( supposedly every one different ) and with 36 carved angels along the sides, was described by British historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the finest 15th century carved oak wagon-roof in England ".
Its massive crossing tower was rated " probably the largest and finest Romanesque tower in England " by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.
His plans were partially completed by his son, John Oldrid Scott, but the remaining work fell into the hands of Lord Grimthorpe, whose efforts have attracted much controversy — Nikolaus Pevsner calling him a " pompous, righteous bully.
Early in the 20th century, The Viaduct received a new faïence façade which Nikolaus Pevsner succinctly described as " a jolly tiled Edwardian pub ".
Throughout all these changes, the core of Stoke Newington, centred around Church Street, has retained its own distinct ' London village ' character ; indeed, Nikolaus Pevsner confessed that he found it hard to see the district as being in London at all.
It has a high tower and a famous Norman ( 12th century ) south doorway, stained blue, with seven orders and three shafts, described by the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as ' barbaric and glorious '.
Nikolaus Pevsner dismisses it as " neither one thing nor the other ".
This process would be extended by Nash in planning groups of buildings, the first example being Blaise Hamlet ( 1810 – 1811 ), here a group of nine asymmetrical cottages were laid out around a village green, Nikolaus Pevsner described the hamlet as ' the ne plus ultra of the Picturesque movement '.
* Pevsner, Nikolaus ( 1951 ) An Outline of European Architecture 2nd Edition.
" However the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner states that Burges's remodelling was carried out " with all the robust ugliness which that architect liked ".
William Butterfield, the original architect, a High Churchman himself, produced a vigorous masterpiece of Victorian Gothic, among his few secular buildings, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner characterized as " manly ", and which, Charles Eastlake asserted, defied criticism, but which only slowly gained adherents during the later 20th century.
According to Nikolaus Pevsner, Lincoln College preserves " more of the character of a 15th century college than any other in Oxford ".
It has been described as "... one of the most interesting in the county ", by Nikolaus Pevsner, the architectural historian Edlingham itself is little more than a hamlet with a church alongside the castle.
" In the twentieth century, Nikolaus Pevsner would agree, but the mention of the architect-earl Burlington, arbiter of architectural taste, boded ill for the provincial surveyor-builder, Tunnicliffe.

Nikolaus and described
The earliest of these to be developed is the Otto cycle engine developed in 1876 by Nikolaus August Otto in Cologne, Germany, after the operation principle described by Alphonse Beau de Rochas in 1861.
Rugby was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as ' Butterfieldtown ' due to the number of buildings designed by William Butterfield in the 19th century, including much of Rugby School and the extension of St Andrews church.
Noted architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point as " coarse in the extreme ".
It was described as " Redbrick Tudorish " by Nikolaus Pevsner.
His memorial by the monumental mason Hopper in Holy Trinity Church ( Cambridge ), was described by architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner as an " epitaph in Gothic forms.
It was described by architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as " free Neo-Tudor " and " extremely pretty " and by Andor Gomme as " one of the great masterpieces of the early Modern Movement ".
The Bank being his most famous work, Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank, demolishing most of Soane's earlier building was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".
Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as “ lying large and low like a tired beast ”.
The architect was C Evans Vaughan, and it was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as a " nice irregular brick building with Tudor windows and lantern ".
The bland frontage of the blocks, described in Nikolaus Pevsner's architectural guides as " the very image of faceless bureaucracy ", was much criticised and local people nicknamed them as " the three ugly sisters ".
: S. khasianum proper is now S. aculeatissimum as described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described the view looking towards the south-east of the square with its now listed buildings and river opening as " one of the most perfect village pictures that the area has to offer ".
In 1760, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin described the first species in Browne's genus, which he named M. bijugatus.
Sully Hospital is described in the Glamorgan section of Nikolaus Pevsner ’ s ‘ The Buildings of Wales ’ as “ An outstanding example of inter-war architecture, which has survived almost unaltered ” and is considered to be the finest representation of Modernist sanatoriums in Britain and one of the last great Modernist landmarks remaining in the whole of Wales.
The restoration work, regarded as the apex of Godfrey's architectural achievement, was described by the critic Nikolaus Pevsner as executed ' exemplarily '.
The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described this house as a " spectacular Gothic mansion ".
The building is regarded as one of Cockerell's most impressive and was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as a " masterpiece of Victorian architecture ".
The condition is named after the German physician Nikolaus Friedreich, who first described it in the 1860s.

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