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Circus. Erevan, september 2011
September 1, 2011 was a start-up date for construction works on rebuilding and redevelopment of the Erevan Circus. The General Design Company – VEK Project LLC. The Erevan Circus Cultural Center, a new building satisfying all the modern demands is to be put into operation for the Erevan people in 2014.
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Interview with well-known Moscow architect Mr. Ashot Avetisian
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Interview with well-known Moscow architect Mr. Vaagn Vermishyan
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Airport Domodedovo. Moscow, february 2011
Statement from CJSC “Domodedovo Construction Management” regarding the Positive opinion by State expert appraisal No. 11/ГГЭ-7140/04 (State register № 00-1-4-0434 – 11) dated February 4, 2011 with respect to the Air Passenger Terminal Domodedovo-2 with a total area of 152 632 thousand square meters at the allocated site-area of 6,63 ha. General Design Company – VEK Project LLC.
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Design Deluxe 4/18 2011
Way back in the sixties of the last century, the “Life” magazine stated that Rio’s favellae were “wonderful in their own way, with their fragile and melancholic beauty. Light and somewhat elegant structures find themselves on the slopes like birds’ nests...”. For the first time the illegal settlements were plotted on the city’s map in 1994. The largest of them, Rosynia, with over 100 000 inhabitants, was formalized and received official status of the city’s district. Today it is not unusual to see guided tours here. Long ago the favellae have lost status of the poverty symbol, and now become a unique brand of Brazil as well as soccer game and carnivals. “Harmony of Chaos” is the best description of the modern favellae.
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Design Deluxe 3/17 2011
Ashanti is a people that lives in Ghana and is able to administer specific sacraments called “adinkra”. Adinkra demonstrates folk wisdom and a philosophic habit of thought. Ashanti have much power of observation that usually appears in Adinkra. You could notice ancient symbolic all around – clothes, utensils, and houses. Adinkra is drawn on the cotton fiber by means of wooden stamps, and is coated on the walls of any house with color clay or by means of plated surfacing. Center of Arts of the Ghana National Complex is a spatial implementation of national mythological ideas about the world around, the ideas of people living in the country.
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Design Deluxe 2/16 2011
From the earliest times Armenian cultural life has cooperated with the Kingdom of Aksum, the first Christian state in Africa. It suffices to take a look at Ethiopian and Armenian Alphabets, miniature paintings in Matenadaran and the Museum of Addis Ababa, Armenian khachkars and giant basaltic stelae of Aksum. National complex in Ethiopia is a synthesis and modern incorporation of architectural arts between two far away countries, the countries located at two different continents, the countries that have very much in common.
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Design Deluxe 1/15 2011
Design solutions of the Celestial Empire complex is a sample of Chinese traditional architecture Si He Yuan. It is a typical hierarchic project consisting of residential and support structures united by sun-lounges and surrounded by an extensive inner area for maximum of sun light. Main entrance leads to the outer courtyard; there are bedrooms for sons, daughters or side halls to the left and right hand sides of the courtyard.
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Design Deluxe 8/14 2010
In Middle Ages Spain became a pioneer country in such architectural styles as “isabellino” (in name of Isabella I , Queen of Castile and León), “plateresco” (Spanish – hammered, ornamental), baroque “churrigueresco” and ascetic “herreresco” (named by architects Jose Churriguero and Jose Herrer), Catalan modern by Antonio Gaudi. So, the Recreation module of the Spanish City of the World is an up-to-date version of the “mudejar style”. A building complex explicated around the “patio” (Spanish – enclosed open courtyard) is a show-piece of classic architectural style of Hispano-Moresque art of building spread around the world.
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Design Deluxe 7/13 2010
The World-Expo 2010 held in Shanghai with 192 exhibiting countries ended on October 31, 2010. The Armenian Pavilion carried a unique idea – an idea of the Cities of the World, a new XXI century construction module! The idea was acknowledged as a “unique and the most meaningful”. The fact was also recorded that Armenia was the only participating country that not only demonstrated itself but proposed changes to the surrounding world. This perfectly corresponded to the main subject of the Expo – “Better city, Better life”. The concept inventor was Ashot Avetisian, an architect, and a group leader of the Armenian organizing committee at Expo-2010. He was the person we were talking to about the Armenian Pavilion and the City of the World Project.