Meet the artists trying to revive Yerevan’s medieval city-center

Yerevan celebrated its 2800th birthday last year, but one would be hard-pressed to find any structure in the city old enough to reflect that history. Over the previous century, Yerevan’s precious few historical buildings and entire neighborhoods have vanished under might of Soviet urban renewal plans, while surviving structures would later be gutted and replaced by bland high-rises of dubious legality in the post-independence era.