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NO IRANIAN SKY-SCRAPER TO BE BUILT ON AZNAVUR SQUARE, SAYS ARCHITECT
Tert.am
21.11.11
The Iranian proposal to build a 50-storey building near (Charles)
Aznavur Square in central Yerevan will be rejected president of the
Union of Architectures of Armenia has said.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Mkrtich Minasyan said the reason is
that the proposal is inconsistent with the zoning project of city's
construction plan.
The area under discussion is located between the Moscow Cinema and
the building of Artists' Union of Armenia and was sold to an Iranian
semi-state company in 1990s.
The company demolished a semi-built building and came up with some
projects. The proposal to building a multi-storey building was made
in 2009 when Gagik Beglaryan was Yerevan Mayor.
The Yerevan Municipality had then allowed the Iranian company to
build a 20-storey building.
However, Mkrtich Minasyan thinks that constructing such a building
today is inadmissible.
The Iranian side and the Yerevan Municipality have come to a deadlock
as the land belongs to the Iranian company, while the decision whether
or not to allow the construction is with the Yerevan Municipality.
Hrayr Poghosyan, Head of the Department Urban Development at the
Yerevan Municipality, says that there is no common ground over the
use of the land at the moment.
The purported sky-scraper was planned to be a cultural centre.
According to Poghosyan, even if the Iranian cultural centre is built
in line with Yerevan's architectural norms, building it on Aznavur
Square is illogical.
Tert.am
21.11.11
The Iranian proposal to build a 50-storey building near (Charles)
Aznavur Square in central Yerevan will be rejected president of the
Union of Architectures of Armenia has said.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Mkrtich Minasyan said the reason is
that the proposal is inconsistent with the zoning project of city's
construction plan.
The area under discussion is located between the Moscow Cinema and
the building of Artists' Union of Armenia and was sold to an Iranian
semi-state company in 1990s.
The company demolished a semi-built building and came up with some
projects. The proposal to building a multi-storey building was made
in 2009 when Gagik Beglaryan was Yerevan Mayor.
The Yerevan Municipality had then allowed the Iranian company to
build a 20-storey building.
However, Mkrtich Minasyan thinks that constructing such a building
today is inadmissible.
The Iranian side and the Yerevan Municipality have come to a deadlock
as the land belongs to the Iranian company, while the decision whether
or not to allow the construction is with the Yerevan Municipality.
Hrayr Poghosyan, Head of the Department Urban Development at the
Yerevan Municipality, says that there is no common ground over the
use of the land at the moment.
The purported sky-scraper was planned to be a cultural centre.
According to Poghosyan, even if the Iranian cultural centre is built
in line with Yerevan's architectural norms, building it on Aznavur
Square is illogical.