Lincoln Library
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Car showroom and then a Library in Lincoln
Waymark Code: WM1E73
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/18/2007
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When English Heritage listed Scorer's Lincoln county library, built as a car showroom in 1959, the then arts minister Alan Howarth described him as "a pioneer in the use of this type of roof construction and a figure of national significance".
This building in Lincoln UK is one of the neatest of his solutions to the challenge of a shape known as a hyperbolic paraboloid or hypar, a mixture of cones and curves which became a practical possibility thanks to 20th-century building materials.
The Roof of the building is made up of four Hyperbolic Paraboloids joined to form a larger whole.
I met Sam Scorer when in his late 70's. Still challenging and with a lively mind. Shame he's gone.
Building Address:
Brayford Wharf
Lincoln, UK
LN1 !XX
Is it open to the general public?: yes
When was it built? (Approximate if you must.): 01/01/1959
What is the name of this building?: Old Lincoln Central Library
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