{"id":246658,"date":"2025-11-06T04:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246658\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T04:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:51:18","slug":"star-of-caledonia-new-sculpture-being-made-for-the-scotland-england-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246658\/","title":{"rendered":"Star of Caledonia: New sculpture being made for the Scotland-England border"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not the first time this landmark to mark the border between England and Scotland has been attempted. <\/p>\n

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

His structure – the Star of Caledonia – represents James Clerk Maxwell, otherwise known as the ‘Einstein of Scotland’. <\/p>\n

Loads of the technology we use today relies on the ideas he came up with.<\/p>\n

Work on the illuminated sculpture will start in March 2026 and is due to be completed by the spring of 2027.<\/p>\n

You can read all about James Clerk Maxwell over on BBC Bitesize<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s not the first time this landmark to mark the border between England and Scotland has been attempted.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-246658","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-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}