Britain's public art

A bronze statue of a couple embracing at the new St Pancras International Station. The statue is called The Meeting Place Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty

Manchester's B of the Bang: the UK's tallest sculpture, designed by Thomas Heatherwick and currently subject to legal action over accusations that it is falling apart Photograph: Chris Thomond/freelance

Antony Gormley's trend-setting Angel of the North near Newcastle-upon-Tyne Photograph: Rex

A giant panoramic cityscape of Liverpool by artist Ben Johnson will appear in the city at the Walker art gallery Photograph: Chris Thomond/freelance

Marc Quinn's marble statue, Alison Lapper Pregnant, possibly the most famous of the Fourth Plinth commissions in London's Trafalgar Square Photograph: Dan Chung/freelance

Another Fourth Plinth commission, Thomas Schütte's Model for a Hotel 2007, is a glass sculpture of a 21-storey building. It weighs over eight tonnes Photograph: Graeme Robertson/freelance

Three Ellipses for Three Locks, the Cardiff Bay barrage by Felice Varini Photograph: The Arts & Regeneration Agency for Cardiff Harbour Authority/Public domain

Another Cardiff commission, the bilingual facade of the Millennium Centre. The Welsh on the left reads: Creu Gwir Fel Gwydr O Ffwrnais Awen ("Creating truth like glass from inspiration's furnace"). The English on the right reads: "In these stones horizons sing" Photograph: Wales Millennium Centre/freelance

Still to come ... a model of two giant, 115ft-tall horses to be built for the Forth and Cyde canal at Grangemouth. The Kelpie sculptures by Andy Scott are based on the mythical Scots creatures of the same name Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/freelance