A British backed school of architecture will be established in the northern Armenian city of Gyumri.

Today, Gyumri Mayor Samvel Balsanyan hosted Ken Brown, a member of the Bristol Institution of Structural Engineers and a trustee of the Architecture Centre, and American architect Jane Britt Greenwood.

Since 2009, the two have been working at the Kumayri Historic District in Gyumri.

Brown and Greenwood informed the mayor of their plan to turn a building into an architectural school and that volunteers and students from overseas will arrive in the spring of next year to work on the project.