Comments on: Homes of Armenia’s Richest!

By: gi

gi — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:16:44 +0000

Ford and other people made their fortune little by little, during many years. These kind of thives became rich fast… stolen money from the people.

By: arthur

arthur — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:28:09 +0000

the location of this house just sucks.

By: Chance

Chance — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:19:17 +0000

It seems that wealth and opulence in nations with newly minted wealth are not seem as overt yet anytime someone in a established nation builds a “castle” it is met with criticism and contempt, when you would think it should be the other way around.

By: Mike F

Mike F — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:23:16 +0000

Well, it was what the architect told me. It is a rather famous one, so I thought he knew what he said. Anyways, colums can be debated for a long time. In the end I guess it’s what the owners of the house thinks. If they like whatever they choose it’s good for them.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:45:59 +0000

Mike,
That kind of reasoning is not consistent. The Parthenon didn’t have bases on their columsns, but most columns afterwards do. The parthenon had doric capitals, but most columns of a “high class structures” don’t.

I think curved columns are the result of a style that has been proved to be a winner for centuries upon centuries. I’ve looked around for examples of “straight” columns from antiquity and they seem to have weeded themselves out of existence.

Of course, any column is still a column, but I would venture to guess that out of a group of 100 classically trained architects that 99 of them would see straight ones as eyesores.

By: Mike F

Mike F — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:45:07 +0000

Have talked with a very good architect regarding this before. The Parthenon had columns that were not straight, so just because of that every classic building “must” have it. We can agree or disagree about this, but personally I preffer my columns straight. Depending on which building you build, I guess.

What is interesting in this case is that the columns in the main house are of two different styles, which might ruin things a bit. A facade shoud not have too many design details that go against each other.

By: Mike F

Mike F — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:34:42 +0000

In the former Soviet-countries it seems it is very easy to get away with it. Or you know someone who fixes it for you, and you are still “innocent”. Have seen too much of the greed over there, I have lived in some of the post-Soviet countries. The hunt for greed is too much, but the everyday people are really great, though.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:23:03 +0000

Armenia is a “new money” country–just as jocks and people like that have little taste in the US.

What bothers me the most are those columns! I’m no architect, but columns just look bad when they don’t bevel out. Every one of those columns are perfectly straight and cheap.

By: Rhyne

Rhyne — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:33:56 +0000

And honesty is important in the United States or elsewhere? Off the top of my head: Madoff, Rigas, Lay, Skilling, Waksal, Ebbers, and the list goes on.

People are greedy everywhere, except in some places they can get away with it, and in other places they can’t (at least not as easily).

By: Venom

Venom — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:53:42 +0000

Yes there is, I pointed it out quite clearly in my above comment that there is verifiably clean money.
The easiest example is someone that one a state lottery.
That is about as clean as you can get.
My comments are about these particular people who after reading the post seem to be verifiable scum that make massive amounts of money because they have monopolies.
If you dig deeper I will bet they mob or mobsters, much like the Russian oligarchs.
I have no regard for people like these who profit off of the backs of others.

By: Mike F

Mike F — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:44:40 +0000

Of course! Foul playing is big business over there. People got really rich in a very short time, which is impossible unless you play really rotten.

Nothing wrong with money if you earn it the right way, but in these countries honesty is usually not so important.

By: Rhyne

Rhyne — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:43:29 +0000

Venom, do you only admire homes or cars or other things that are bought with 100% verifiably clean money? I am sorry but there is no such thing. Whether in Armenia or Dubai or France or the U.S. or elsewhere, many of the wealthiest walk a fine line with legality on one side and utter disdain for law on the other.

Personally, looking at homes or cars or art or anything else has to be done without regard to the people who own them, otherwise you will soon come to realize the true nature of things.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:52:38 +0000

as far as you know. i’m not gonna judge people i haven’t met and obviously there’s exceptions to every rule. nonetheless, we can agree a ton of crimes committed by wealthy individuals are going to go unnoticed to the public eye because $$$ was spent towards that very cause. that’s common sense. but either way, it still has nothing to do with the quality of a home.

By: Venom

Venom — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:20:49 +0000

That is not true.
If you play the lottery and win $300 million there is no crime committed.
As far as I know the Google guys committed no crimes, nor Oprah or many other wealthy people.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:48:44 +0000

Great post, well done for bringing something a little profound to our attention