Haykakan Zhamanak: We have lost cultural monument

The newly-appointed Chief Architect of Yerevan, Tigran Barseghian, told the correspondent of ‘Haykakan Zhamanak’ daily that the construction changes to the Closed Market in downtown Yerevan are a ‘national disgrace’. “It is not my own opinion, but nation-wide one,” he noted.

For his part, Chairman of the Union of Architects of Armenia Mkrtych Minasian said that a cultural monument has been lost because “more than half of the interior has been damaged”. “We have lost a big multipurpose hall,” he said.

The former Chief Architect of Yerevan Narek Sargsyan and the Ministry of Urban Development refused to make comments.