Craig Bragdy Design, a leading design company, which has put decorative tiling onto a number of underpasses, has recently completed the designing the tiles for the new underpasses in Abu Dhabi.

The underpasses, which will open next month, will unveil some of the truly spectacular graphics and pictorial scenes, says a company spokesman.
“Our involvement with the new underpasses in Abu Dhabi, commissioned by the Abu Dhabi Municipality, has been an interesting and challenging project,” says the spokesman.
He continues: “In a joint venture with Lever Building Materials, we were commissioned to design, manufacture and install approximately 10,500 sq m of tiles. The first of the underpasses involves 4,200 sq m of tiles –32 per sq m, a total of 134,000 tiles. Of these 80,000 tiles have been hand-decorated.
“There are three underpasses, each taking six months for design and manufacture.
A team of 12 artists have been working on them and the design and manufacture is taking place in the small town of Denbigh in North Wales where Craig Bragdy has its main design studios and factory facilities,” he says.
“Standard tiles are being used and our skilled artists ahave applied hand decoration to them. The first of the three underpasses is 800 m long and decorated on both sides. The Sheraton underpass uses traditional architectural features to create a colonnade of buildings on either side of the road with the important use of colouring, shading and shadowing to create a three-dimensional effect.
Lever Building Materials is playing a prominent role in this project, giving all on-site technical support and backup, supplying the Laticrete adhesives and installing the tiles.