HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

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.