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STAR OF CALEDONIA FEATURES IN SUNDAY TIMES AND SUNDAY POST

‘Standing tall – The Star of Caledonia, a symbol of Scottish confidence, will greet millions of motorists in 2014 — the year of the country’s independence referendum’ – Sunday Times

Star of Caledonia, the new landmark to mark the Scotland/England border crossing designed by Cecil Balmond is to be put forward for planning approval this week. Both the Sunday Times and Sunday Post included articles in their newspapers on 2nd December. Click on Read more for full articles…

‘Balmond explained that it would depict several metaphors for Scotland:

“When looking for this impossibility of a people’s identity, what came close for me was the power of their invention; our world owes much to Scottish genius. I thought that the theory of Maxwell’s electromagnetism, intersecting waves, echoed the border crossing. A sculpture that traces a set of curves but gets intersected and spiked at right angles to the line of travel would reflect Maxwell’s theory. If lights shine from the tips of the spikes a star burst occurs, the brainpower of Scotland.”’

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