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BASALT MINE DEVELOPED IN AREA OF BUILT-DOWN YOUTH CHAMBER "KUKURUZNIK"
arminfo
Monday, January 28, 13:00
A basalt mine is being developed in the area of the built-down Youth
Chamber more known in public as "Kukuruznik" (maize). One of the
authors of the Youth Chamber's project, honored architect of Armenia
Hrach Poghosyan told media, Monday.
"I cannot understand the indifference to this city and to its
architectural heritage. No one asks why a mine is being developed
in the area instead of construction," he said. Poghosyan believes
that built-down of the Youth Chamber in 2006 was illegal, because it
was disassembled without the necessary project documents. The Youth
Chamber was put into service in 1979. It was a complex of a system
of terraces and a 14-floor high hotel with 500 rooms, a cinema hall
with 1200 seats, and a cafe on the upper floor with a rotary floor.
In 1981 the project received the prize of the Central Committee
of All-Union Leninist Young Communist League in the sphere of
architecture. In the years of Armenia's independence the Chamber
was sold to a private Eduard Avetisyan. Later, it was recognized
'accident-prone' and built-down. A project by a Japanese architect
won contest announced for construction of a hotel in the area of
the Chamber in 2010. The project provided for construction of two
buildings at the height of 150m and 90m. Later, the Municipality
demanded reducing the height to 122m and 70m. Earlier, chief architect
of Yerevan Narek Sargsyan said that the changes to the project are
under discussion.
arminfo
Monday, January 28, 13:00
A basalt mine is being developed in the area of the built-down Youth
Chamber more known in public as "Kukuruznik" (maize). One of the
authors of the Youth Chamber's project, honored architect of Armenia
Hrach Poghosyan told media, Monday.
"I cannot understand the indifference to this city and to its
architectural heritage. No one asks why a mine is being developed
in the area instead of construction," he said. Poghosyan believes
that built-down of the Youth Chamber in 2006 was illegal, because it
was disassembled without the necessary project documents. The Youth
Chamber was put into service in 1979. It was a complex of a system
of terraces and a 14-floor high hotel with 500 rooms, a cinema hall
with 1200 seats, and a cafe on the upper floor with a rotary floor.
In 1981 the project received the prize of the Central Committee
of All-Union Leninist Young Communist League in the sphere of
architecture. In the years of Armenia's independence the Chamber
was sold to a private Eduard Avetisyan. Later, it was recognized
'accident-prone' and built-down. A project by a Japanese architect
won contest announced for construction of a hotel in the area of
the Chamber in 2010. The project provided for construction of two
buildings at the height of 150m and 90m. Later, the Municipality
demanded reducing the height to 122m and 70m. Earlier, chief architect
of Yerevan Narek Sargsyan said that the changes to the project are
under discussion.