{"id":164303,"date":"2025-11-05T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/164303\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:48:13","slug":"star-of-caledonia-new-sculpture-being-made-for-the-scotland-england-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/164303\/","title":{"rendered":"Star of Caledonia: New sculpture being made for the Scotland-England border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s not the first time this landmark to mark the border between England and Scotland has been attempted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A competition to design the structure was won in 2011 by artist Cecil Balmond, but building it was put on hold because of funding issues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His structure &#8211; the Star of Caledonia &#8211; represents James Clerk Maxwell, otherwise known as the &#8216;Einstein of Scotland&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Loads of the technology we use today relies on the ideas he came up with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work on the illuminated sculpture will start in March 2026 and is due to be completed by the spring of 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/articles\/zjjk382\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can read all about James Clerk Maxwell over on BBC Bitesize<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not the first time this landmark to mark the border between England and Scotland has been attempted.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-164303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115497409107162378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}