View of Yerevan late 19th century source: businessway.am
Soon in Yerevan, at one of the bars of main street will begin rebuilding architectural complex, which will be moved to the building of the late 19th-early 20th centuries of historical and architectural value. About this BakuToday Chief Architect of the project “old Yerevan” Levon Vardanyan. In fact, in a old town. The company has already developed a LV Architect program.
The idea of rebuilding the “old” city is not new. Back in 2005, the Government of Armenia adopted a decision to collect the destroyed building at the new site and create a cozy corner in the Centre of the capital of antiquity.
“Architecture of the late 19th-early 20th centuries proved to be beneficial, not only in the sense of enrichment of local architectural traditions of modern European trends. New and progressive, vpletaâs′ into the national fabric architecture, penetrated into all areas of architectural activity. Intensive reconstruction of the city in a short time has transformed the face of the city. In the second half of the 19th century in many new types of constructions. The banks, administrative agencies, train station, passages, hotels, schools, mansions, apartment and tenement houses with shops, says Vardanian. -Rapidly evolved, and industry. According to 1908, in Yerevan there were 76 plants and factories, not counting 616 handicraft. Few people today know that only in the center of Yerevan in the early 20th century were 14 churches and chapels. “
The project, designed by Architect LV is fully operational-every piece of this mini quarter becomes active part of modern urban life. Here is a typical Café and placed outside the Yerevan restaurants, shops, salons, specialized art galleries and museums, as well as small hotels. Dismantled in recent years old House, newly collected and restored, lined up in the rectangle along streets Arami, Abovyan, Bûzanda and of Kolb.
Note that the length of the “old City” of approximately 300 meters, the width is 68. In the center of the rectangle has some old buildings that will be provided in an appropriate form. A total of 20 to restore the architectural and historical monuments.
