Mosaics made easy with concrete A process called LithoMosaic allows contractors to install large public artworks in the time it takes to pour a sidewalk.

After he retired, he sold birdbaths and other concrete garden pieces. When he stopped doing it, Galbavy bought his molds and began decorating them with mosaics.

Iron within the concrete corrodes and expands, rising to the surface and threatening the weave of stone, glass, ceramic pieces or shells that make up the mosaic’s tesserae (tiles).

The VIA company specialises in the traditional manufacture of cement mosaic or terrazzo tiles in historic and modern patterns.

Crews are pumping in about seven Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of concrete to fill the hole. Mosaic estimates the work will cost about $50 million. % ...

Iron within the concrete corrodes and expands, rising to the surface and threatening the weave of stone, glass, ceramic pieces or shells that make up the mosaic’s tesserae (tiles).