HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
BUILDING OF THE RA CADASTRE COMMITTEE
1954
Architects: Grigor Aghababyan, Martin
Mikayelyan
The
building is located on Arshakunyats Avenue.
It
was constructed in 1954 as the building of the Central Statistical
Administration of the Armenian SSR. In the 1990s, it was allocated to the
Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia.
The
building is four stories high with a basement level. Its floor plan is
rectangular, with the same layout on all floors: rooms arranged along both
sides of a corridor. There are two entrances located at the ends of the main
façade. Vertical circulation between floors is provided by staircases placed
deep inside the building opposite the entrances. Access to the basement floor
is organized through the first-floor staircases as well as additional doors on
the eastern and southern façades.
The
façades feature architecturally symmetrical compositions. Each floor of the
side façades has two windows. The courtyard façade is designed with
rhythmically arranged openings and semi-cylindrical volumes projecting outward
from the general plane in the direction of the staircases.
The
main façade facing the avenue is distinguished by rich architectural solutions.
On the first floor, between the entrances, there are six wide arched windows.
The building gains particular elegance from the loggias of the second and third
floors, formed by a unified high arcade of columns and arches, as well as by
the colonnade extending along the entire length of the third floor façade,
complemented by a profiled cornice band.
The
main and side façades are built of finely dressed pink tuff stone, while the
courtyard façade is coated with white plaster.
The
building is notable for the originality of its composition, its solid
structure, and the creative application of Armenian national architectural
traditions. It is one of the representative buildings of 1950s Yerevan.
