TUMO Center for Creative Technologies
Free creative-technology campus whose sloped park hides a Soviet-era fountain beneath tilted triangular terraces.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan starts with a sound out of place: trickling water on a hillside with no river nearby. It traces the squat Soviet-era fountain that architect Bernard Khoury found on the site when he designed the campus in 2011, and the decision everyone expected him to reverse but didn't. Follow the sound down the sloped plaza to find the fountain itself, still the coolest, quietest spot on a site now humming with thousands of students.
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