Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Royal Clock Tower — gold mosaic cladding and ornament
- Years
- 2009 – 2011
- Scope
- Installation
- Material
- Gold leaf glass
Medallion in gold leaf glass on a black glass ground
Architectural glass mosaic installers
We tile the surfaces most people never get close enough to see.
What we do
Curved, ornamental and gold-leaf mosaic is not general tiling work. It needs setters who can read a shop drawing, hold a pattern across a compound curve, and keep a joint line true over thirty metres. Manufacturers make the mosaic. We are the people who put it on the building.
Setting on domes, soffits, columns and facades — including work at height on live sites.
Sheets and ornament checked face-down to drawing before anything goes on the building.
Arabesque, geometric, calligraphic and pictorial work in gold leaf, smalti and glass.
Full glass mosaic linings for pools, spas and water walls — waterline, steps and floor.
Selected work
The material is the same in all three. What changes is the surface it has to sit on, and how much of it there is.
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Medallion in gold leaf glass on a black glass ground
Astana, Kazakhstan
Astana Grand Mosque — the largest in Central Asia
The qibla wall, carrying the 99 names — installed for Trend Group
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Mosaic works at the Center of Islamic Civilization, built beside the Hazrati Imam complex and opened in March 2026. Photographs from this site are not yet cleared for publication.
Gujarat & across India
Pictorial mural — every leaf and feather cut to shape by hand
How the work happens
Sheets arrive numbered to a setting-out drawing. Much of the work is checked face-down on the bench before anything is committed, but what goes on the building still has to be cut in, aligned and closed by hand — which is where the experience actually shows.
The short version
Alex Mosaic installs architectural glass and gold-leaf mosaic, and supplies trained setters to the sites that need them. We are the crew that mosaic manufacturers and main contractors bring in when the material has to go up correctly the first time — over twenty years, in Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and across India.
Who runs it
Founder — 30+ years in the industry
Thirty years of mosaic work, from workshop benches in India to scaffolds in Makkah, Astana and Tashkent. He still reads the setting-out drawings himself and still goes to site.
If you call the number below, this is usually who you end up talking to.
Get in touch
Tell us the surface, the area and the programme. We will tell you honestly whether it is work we should be doing.