Innovative Scots architectural company goes into liquidation

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / August 6

A world-renowned Scottish architectural firm, famed for its giant starfish design of a stately home, has gone into liquidation. Ushida Findlay, a company which built its reputation on designing ultra-modern town houses in Tokyo, was founded in 1987 by Kathryn Findlay and her husband, Eisaku Ushida, a Japanese architect. The firm became famous in 2002 when it won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) competition for the unique starfish plan for Grafton New Hall, a proposed English country home in Cheshire.

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