Yerevan City Hall announces call for bids to select design for March 1 Memorial

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS. Yerevan City Hall has announced an open tender for the planned memorial honoring the victims of the 2008 post-election unrest.

Hovsep Kubatyan, Head of the Information and PR Department of City Hall, said they are planning to have a bronze bas-relief type memorial, which will be installed in the Children’s Park in downtown Yerevan near Republic Square.

He said the design should be limited to “combination of contours of hands and noticeable bodies, excluding figurative solutions and portrait similarities”. The memorial will be named “To the Memory of the 2008 March 1 Victims”.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan