Artur Tarkhanyan (1932–2006) was a Soviet Armenian architect who designed public buildings and memorials in Yerevan, usually as one of a small team of Armenian architects. He was named an Honoured Architect of the Armenian SSR in 1972 and received the Armenian SSR State Prize in 1985 and the USSR State Prize in 1987.
Read moreShow less
The Armenian Genocide Memorial at Tsitsernakaberd (1967), designed with Sashur Kalashyan and the artist Hovhannes Khachatryan, sets 12 inward-leaning stone slabs in a circle around an eternal flame, beside a 44-metre memorial column split in two to express the rebirth of the nation. After a competition in 1970 he was one of the six architects chosen to design the Zvartnots Airport Old Terminal (1980). The Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex (1983), shaped like a great bird opening its wings, has a turning stand of 1,008 seats that joins the arena and concert hall, an idea that won its architects the USSR State Prize.
