‘I make architects’ dreams come true’: Hanif Kara, the magician who makes impossible buildings stay up
He has had a hand in some of the 21st-century’s most daring structures – including Zaha Hadid’s Phaeno science centre. We meet the Uganda-born engineer, who has just won architecture’s prestigious Soane medal From the wayward columns of Will Alsop, to the gravity-defying curves of Zaha Hadid, there has always been someone in the background…