The equitecture of the Kelpies

Saturday 12 April, 2014 
These magnificent beasts are the Kelpies, a pair of 30-metre high horse heads created by the sculptor Andy Scott. They stand at the gateway to the Forth and Clyde canal at Falkirk and open to the public this week. 

The artist writes on his website: "The materials are deliberately those of Scotland’s former industrial heartland, steel construction on an architectural scale:  equitecture.  The towering horse heads have an industrial aesthetic with structural columns and beams visible through the riveted laser cut steel plates of the skin, the manes rendered as geometric overlapping slabs of steel."

The photograph above, by Murdo Macleod, appears on the Guardian's centre spread, labelled pictures of the week. The horses are joined by Ukrainians manning barbed wire barricades, Maria Miller driving away from Parliament after resigning as Culture Secretary, and  a blazing lorry and  coach after a crash in California that left ten dead, including five teenagers. The Indian election and  a photograph of Peaches Geldof as a baby along with a number of tweets posted after her death run across the bottom. Top right is the sea lion photograph that appeared in the Times and Mirror earlier in the week. Once again, the caption here refers to the tunnel created by swirling fish as being the size of a football pitch. 
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