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    IS IT TIME TO HAVE A NEW ARCHITECT?

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    [04:36 pm] 11 May, 2006

    Three architects sat side by side in the club "Mirror" and criticized
    the "bustle" of the capital's construction works. The two former chief
    architects of the capital and the recent one were among them. All
    of them confessed that 6 years ago the capital wasn't ready for the
    constructive works, that's why they couldn't avoid mistakes.

    One of the participants was the chairman of the architects' union
    Mkrtich Minasyan who opposed others.

    The other was the head of the Yerevan project institute Gurgen
    Musheghyan. The latter mainly supported his counterpart, the chief
    of the municipality architecture and urban development department
    and the chief architect of Yerevan Samvel Danielyan. Mkrtich Minasyan
    claimed that the sore point of the capital is not the ugliness resulted
    by the construction works. "The point is that we were to preserve
    certain normative claims which existed earlier," he urged. Asked the
    question whether he liked the view of the capital from the heaven,
    he answered negatively. We tried to find out whether he liked the
    Yerevan of his period. "It wasn't that good either," said the chairman
    of the architects' union.

    He also focused on the fact that constructors break "the red line;"
    they want to use public territories as commercial objects. Architect
    Musheghyan brought the example of Hrazdan gorge where multiple
    entertainment objects were built and according to his words the
    visibility of the gorge became obscure.

    Samvel Danielyan also confessed that the gorge is a serious
    environmental problem for the RA capital as the country doesn't have
    seas and lakes and claimed that all the new objects legalized their
    buildings through the court system. As a proper way to avoid further
    wilderness he suggested making the roofs of the buildings green.

    The most interesting point was the chief architect's contemplation over
    his actions when he claimed that they were immature and unprepared
    during the constructions of Northern Avenue and they will not repeat
    their mistakes later on as they have already become mature and learned
    a lot of new things.
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