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The centre of the ticket hall is occupied by a disused ticket office (a passimeter in London Underground parlance) which houses an exhibition on the station and the line. Like Holden's other stations on the extension, Arnos Grove is a Grade II
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and basic geometric shapes. A circular drum-like ticket hall of brick and glass panels rises from a low single storey structure and is capped by a flat concrete roof. The design was inspired by
21: 27: 57:. The station opened in 1932 as part of the first section of the northern extension of the Piccadilly line from 110: 62: 17: 85: 58: 77: 50: 101: 105: 93: 54: 39: 81: 69: 97: 96:. The building features as one of the 12 "Great Modern Buildings" profiled in 73: 100:
during October 2007 and was summarised by architectural critic
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designed for the extension, Arnos Grove was built in a modern
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as "...truly what German art historians would describe as a
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Portal:London transport
Selected articles
Portal:London transport/Selected article/September 2010

London Underground
Piccadilly line
Finsbury Park
Cockfosters
Charles Holden
European
reinforced concrete
Gunnar Asplund
Stockholm City Library
listed building
The Guardian
Jonathan Glancey
gesamtkunstwerk
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