This summer, the construction of the The House of Paul Eluard Francophone Center began. The construction is carried out by the “Portal” architectural studio together with the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund and the Artsakh Government. The building occupies 700 square meters. The completion of construction works is scheduled for summer 2020. Next to the Center of Francophone it is planned to build an IT school for 450 students and a chapel. The Francophone Center consists of three parts: non-commercial, commercial and the garden. The main entrance is from Tumanyan street. The indoor corridor is the link between the sidewalk and the garden, where the entrances to the commercial and non-commercial parts are located. There is also a second entrance on the west side, where car parking is located. Near the main entrance will stand statue to Paul Eluard. The project is of great interest for everyone. We talked about this with the architect of the Portal studio Sevak Asryan. - I’ll begin with non-commercial part, which is 488m². Here we have the main hall with an area of 135 m² and a height of 5 m. This is a transformable hall, which is divided into two parts by a removable partition. Here you can organize various events by changing the position of chairs and tables. The hall has access to the garden through opening stained glass doors. On the same floor we also have: a conference hall, a classroom, a library, a dressing-room, a bathroom and a utility premise. On the second floor there are three guest rooms with balconies overlooking at Charles Aznavour’s park, as well as the director's office, an open terrace and the laundry. The total area of the commercial part is 327 m² which includes 127 m² dining room with a serving kitchen and direct access to the garden and an open dining area, as well as a bakery, a utility premise, dressing room and toilets. In the basement there will be a cellar, entrance to which is planned to be from the garden. The area of the garden is 850 m². In its central part it is planned to build fountains and a gazebo with a canopy. The garden is located next to the IT school, which has a sports ground, open also for the visitors of the Francophone Center. The architecture of the project is made in modern style with flat roofs. Local stones, tufa, wood, glass and metal are used for exterior cladding and finishes.

"Two new urban blocks will be built in the center of Stepanakert, and the works are at the design stage",- this information we received from the municipality of Stepanakert. The houses will be built in accordance with all modern building requirements. One of the blocks will be located next to Tigran Mets - Alek Manukyan intersection. The author of the project is Russian architect of Armenian origin Maxim Atayants. The area of the urban block will be 3.5 hectares, and according to the project, there will be seven- and nine-storey buildings. The houses will be built using the latest building technologies including anti-seismic rubber bearings for all foundations. It is planned to finish the construction works in 2020. The second urban block with 2.5 hectares area will be located not far from Tumanyan street, near the Officers' district. The design of the block is carried out by the architectural studio "Portal". According to design, there will be five-storey buildings, school and kindergarten. An important advantage of the apartments in these blocks will be relatively affordable prices when using new mortgage lending scheme developed by the Government of Artsakh. The existing housing fund is out-to-date, and yet the demand for new apartments is high. The government is confident that more families will benefit from the new mortgage scheme. The project will be implemented by the Artsakh Investment Fund. For these 2 programs the fund received additional state financial support and in 2019 its budget increased by 1.5 billion AMD (about $3 mln).