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Commieblock Housing Estates

Vahan:

Armenian commieblocks are slightly different from the concrete monstrosities that can be found in former Communist Bloc countries - they are embellished with tuff. Tuff is predominantly pink, but it comes in all sorts of shades - red, orange, yellow - so this means the blocks are not quite so uniform and have some connection with the ground they stand on. The way these blocks were made, it's like building with lego - one slab on top of another. In Armenia, they used to put fragments and scraps of tuff on the concrete slabs while they were still wet, then cart them off and stick them together on a block.

_{Drying Sheepskins}

_{Bread Kiosk}

_{Bottle Stall}

_{The Edge of the City (and location of Vahan's old studio)}

Public Works

_{Ministry Buildings, photo by Serge}

_{Broken Down Bus}

_{Photos by Vahan Bego 2006, except Ministry Buildings at Night, by Serge}

Links

Yerevan's Winter Disaster Zone

Communist Blocks

Falowiec in Gdansk

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