Clearly, Holden had his eyes peeled at all times on the trip; Stockholm Public Library - or Stadsbiblioteket - had opened in 1928, sporting a classically-inspired rotunda with a modernist spin, and Holden borrowed heavily from its cylindrical shape and tall, light-giving windows, when sketching out Arnos Grove tube station.
Both Pick and Holden were suckers for detail, and sometimes they'd simply purloin a tasty little feature rather than the overall structure of a building. This seems to have been the case with Jan Willem Eduard Buijs's De Volharding Building in the Hague. with its slender mast of glass bricks that glow beacon-like at night. An uncannily similar feature later appeared atop Boston Manor Underground station. Coincidence? We think not.
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