Tert.am
No building has been built till now in the place of the Youth Palace destroyed in 2004, architect, the author of the Youth Palace building Hrachik Poghosyan told the reporters on Monday, claiming that the place has become a basalt macadam mine.
“The illegal destruction of the building launched and continues till today. If someone decides to destroy its partially ruined building, it needs not only to ask permission from the municipality but present the project of what is going to be built instead. While nothing of that kind has been done in case of the palace’s building,” the architect said.
He also stressed that the building authored by him was destroyed during Robert Kocharyan’s presidency.
“The palace was privatized that is why it was destroyed. Robert Kocharyan said ‘if you are going to build a better one, destroy it’. A document was signed as if it was in so bad condition that was to be ruined instead of being restored. And why are you buying a thing your are going to destroy?” the architect said.
Referring to the building that appeared in the Internet, the architect said that it is just a proposal. “A Japanese architect won the tender and the photo that appeared in the Internet is just a work of a guy who just showed what he can do. Now both the Japanese winner and the project are gone. The fate of the building continues being uncertain though the municipality has written a letter about it and other partial buildings to clear out the fate of these buildings,” he said.
The architect said that now instead of the palace built 10 years ago a basalt exploitation mine has started operating. “This person [owner] has placed about ten vehicles there which turn basalt into macadam and sells it. A mine has been created in the center of the capital, in case of Trchkan a great noise would have been raised but they have opened a mine in the capital’s downtown and no one speaks about it,” he stressed.
The architect said he understands the indifference toward anything but not toward own country and soil.
January 30, 2013 at 11:40