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Discussions are being held concerning the old (round) building of Zvartnots airport and the responsiveness to public opinion in such issues can become a precedent, chairman of the Union of Architects of Armenia Mkrtich Minasyan told Panorama.am in an interview. 

“An agreement may be reached with consideration of interests of all sides. All solutions will be discussed in an attempt to give a second life to the building,” Minasyan said.

The chairman of the Union of Architects noted that the building is currently in a poor condition because it has not been used for a long time.

“Concerns were raised at the recent architectural exhibitions in Vienna and Istanbul about the condition of buildings of Soviet modernism. There are buildings which are not listed among protected monuments but need protection. Such buildings are symbols of the epoch and if we lose them it will mean that we went by an entire epoch,” said the architect.