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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
A brick box with a concrete lid: Holden's rebuilding of 1931 that set the pattern for every Underground station of the thirties.
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The District Railway's country halt of 1903 was pulled down in 1930 and Charles Holden, fresh from a tour of the new architecture of Holland, Germany and Scandinavia with Frank Pick, replaced it with the first station of a kind he would repeat along the Piccadilly line: a tall block of a ticket hall in plain brick, lit by panels of window high in the walls and capped by a flat slab of concrete, with low wings for the shops and the offices. He called it a brick box with a concrete lid. Everything about it was new for a railway, the daylight, the lack of ornament, the lettering in Johnston's alphabet, and it is protected at the higher historic grade with much of its first fitting-out still in place.
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