OK Vagho, your elementary and simple minded question caught my interest and here is the answer, but some of my friends found extra 12 violations. I'll give you one, the rest you figure it out just by looking at this shoddily constructed shell. Here it is: Looking from left to right upper section(2nd floor), the middle wall, and ask an engineer friend to explain to you the violation. Armenians deserve better built public buildings. I am surprised that no one notices these elementary violations in an earthquake prone country like Armenia. God help poor Armenians if and when another earthquake hits. I am glad that Armenia Now, inadvertently printed this picture. It shows the state of decay hitting the Armenian construction companies. I will never live in a building built by an Armenian contractor. There are however tens of other buildings that were constructed by European contractors, and I have personally visited these buildings, and "Thank God" they were all to code. Armenia Now: Kindly print my response, maybe some contractors will be shamed.

Pascal, can you describe some of the violations you saw? I am no civil engineer so it looks to just like any other building (it has walls, and window openings).

I think you will find if you read the terms of the building permit that there is only an obligation to begin the work, which is what the permit holder has done. There is no obligation to finish any work. There is obviously no point in building a modern cinema in the centre of Vanadzor or anywhere else in Armenia if no one can afford to pay the entrance fee, or even to buy popcorn if one manages to find a seat. In deals of this type it would be better for the council to sell off the land to make a bouncy castle rather than pretend that there is an intention to build a cinema. Building permits do not impose time contraints on completing a project, but only in starting work. You can be sure that somebody has made a nice profit out of this deal either by selling the public land, or by stacking up a few "lego bricks" to build a wall. If the cinema is ever opened, perhaps the first film to be shown should be "A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Perhaps others can suggest a better film.

Who will go to the cinema even if it is finished? There are no jobs in Vanadzor. The only hope is to go to Russia for work. Another example of the stupidity and waste that is destroying Armenia. Perhaps when people are too hungry and things hit rock bottom, then there will be a change. But right now, those lucky ones who are working get to see their salaries being reduced, and the cost of bribes and cuts, the mandatory payments, to corrupt officials going up and up. Reserve a front row seat in the new cinema for Vanadzor's mayor, and maybe he will sit there and not get up. Unless he wants to dance around a mountain.

As a civil engineer, I see so many things "wrong" with this picture. Are their any building inspectors in Armenia, or like anything else, they too are corrupted? I would not put my foot inside this particular building being constructed. I can see at least 23 violations. Anyone else sees the shoddy way this building is being built???

Totally agree with the comment below, there are so many other issues to improve that a "Cinema" is the last thing it is needed.

Surely Vanadzor doesn't need a cinema any more than it needs a pile of stones. There are enough unfinished buildings in Armenia without needing to create any more in Vanadzor. If the government were to make computers and the internet more accessible to the youth, they wouldn't need a cinema in the town centre of Vanadzor - they could watch films at home on their computers and learn programming etc in heir study time. At the moment the internet speed there is 33Kbs - which is equivalent to riding a donkey along the internet superhighway. The ability to watch films in the comfort of a modern cinema is the last thing Armenians needs at the present stage of the country's development. Creating a secure and law-abiding atmosphere for investors who can create jobs should come first.