NAREK SARGSIAN: PROGRAM OF GATHERING HISTORIC MONUMENTS IN BUZAND STREET IS "NOTHING MORE THAN CEMETERY OF MONUMENTS"
Noyan Tapan
Ma y 22, 2008
YEREVAN, MAY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. Narek Sargsian, the former Yerevan Chief
Architect, in Yerevan Urban Development Council has voted against
approval of the program of gathering historic monuments in Buzand
street. He is convinced that the program is "nothing more than a
cemetery of monuments."
Moreover, the Chief Architect of Yerevan considers these monuments
repetitions of Russian provincial architecture in Yerevan and in other
places, which were designed in the late 1800-s in Minvody, Kislovodsk
by "engineer-technicians." "I am for that cultural layer’s preservation
in Yerevan as a historic and not architectural value," he emphasized.
Narek Sargsian said in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent
that there was such a part for restoration of historic monuments in
Alaverdian street.
"We considered that the monuments should be gathered in that part of
Yerevan. However, I consider absolutely inadmissible placing them
in the middle of Main Avenue envisaged by Tamanian’s Major Plan,
in the territory of three hectares."
"Fortunately, nothing has been done yet. The city’s architectural
solutions and junctions should arrange so that its blood vessels will
be opened like, for instance, Northern, Miasnikian Avenues, Italian
street. Main Avenue, which is 90 meters wide and should be entirely
a park, will be closed with the implementation of this program,"
he emphasized.
The former Yerevan Chief Architect stressed that he will do his
best for that program adopted and approved two years ago not to
be fulfilled.