HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
The
Union of Artists was established on November 10, 1932.
The
house was built in 1959. Its rectangular volume, which ends the Golden Tulip
Grand Hotel (formerly Intourist, then Yerevan) from the southeast, is set back
a little. The facade is solved in round proportions, repeating the three-tiered
division of the semicircular part of the hotel. The middle high level is
separated by two pairs of columns, which repeat the composition and dimensions
of the Ionic-style columns of the semicircular part of the hotel.
The
interior space of the building and exhibition halls is solved discreetly. The
dark red granite of the floor and stairs and the neutral gray of the walls, the
simple shapes of the halls create the necessary color and spatial environment
for the comfortable placement of frequently changing exhibits. From the square,
stairs lead to the main entrance and the lobby, in the depths of which the
exhibition hall is located.
The
floor level of the exhibition hall is slightly lower than the floor level of
the lobby. In front of the entrance to the hall there are staircases leading to
the second and third floors. The hall on the second floor is located directly
above the lower hall. It has natural lighting from above.
The
exhibition hall of the House of Artists was built on the territory of the
Persian mosque of Zalkhan (1649, rebuilt in 1687).
