The exterior wall of the Mirror House in Hanoi’s Reunion Park was decorated with ceramic mosaic murals of Truong Sa waves. Thu Thuy’s idea aimed to promote the beauty and power of the Vietnamese seascape. As a visitor approaches the Mirror House, there is a sense of mist from the ocean as this entire wall of the building is covered with shimmering waves created entirely by 300,000 ceramic mosaic tiles, giving the installation a feeling of unity and wholeness.
Nguyen Thu Thuy is a visual artist who is based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Born in 1971, she is the general director of New Hanoi Arts Co., Ltd. She is the mastermind and lead designer of the Hanoi Ceramic Mural (HCM) project, which won the Guinness World Records in 2010. Thu Thuy continues to develop other public arts projects throughout Vietnam and internationally. Her artwork can be seen in Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Truong Sa, Da Nang (Vietnam) and Choisy le Roi (France). In April 2018 she won a Silver A’Design Award for the Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mirror House and became member of the International Association of Designers in 2019.
New Hanoi Arts Co.,Ltd was established in October 2007 by visual artist Nguyen Thu Thuy. Following Thu Thuy's idea and designs, the Hanoi authorities assigned the New Hanoi Arts Company to complete the Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural project to celebrate the Hanoi Millennium in 2010. From 2007 to 2010, Thu Thuy and New Hanoi Arts collective had completed the long mural (3.85 km long – 6.950m2) and got the Certificate of Guinness World Records for the Largest Ceramic Mosaic in the world. Thu Thuy continues develop several public arts projects in Hanoi and other provinces of Vietnam. In June 2017, Thu Thuy and New Hanoi Arts collective won the Bronze at the 10th International Design Awards (IDA) in Los Angeles (USA) for the mural of Vietnam trees and flowers at Da Nang International airport.