When Kai-Uwe Bergmann was a young designer travelling the world, it was the work of Antoni Gaudi that took his breath away. “With the cathedral and the park and his buildings, it was of another world, so plastic and so fluid and like nothing I had seen before… for me, it was an epiphany.” Taking that inspiration, Bergmann is now a New York-based partner with the global architecture practice Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), leading work in more than 40 countries.
Straight off the bat, his energy and excitement are palpable as he explains a project called The Spiral, an office tower in Manhattan that is nearing completion. “It has an outdoor terrace on every floor and the terraces spiral up, so it’s called The Spiral. Post-Covid, we
