St Mary Magdalene
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Its importance lies in combining innovative minimalist architectural thinking with advanced liturgical planning.
The structure was designed by an architect largely invisible in architectural history, Sam Scorer, and a structural engineer, Hajnal Konyi.
It consists of an impressive hyperbolic paraboloid roof made in reinforced concrete. Its form was fashionable and functional (romantically rational). It gave an impression of contradicting laws of gravity. It summarizes the post war excitement with engineering.