Together with her husband, Ter-Avetikian designed the fire and police stations in Yerevan and the "Sasuntsi Tavit" cinema, though the cinema was later destroyed.[1] In 1938, one of her designs won recognition at the Parisian international exhibit of "Woman in art and folk art" and that same year, received the designation Laureate of the All-Union Review of the Technical Creativity of Women Architects (Russian: Лауреат Всесоюзных смотров творчества женщин-архитекторов). Between 1941 and 1943, she served as the Chair of the Armenian Union of Architects.[3] Her design for the filmmaker's building won the first prize in the 1948 All-Soviet Female Architects' Competition.[1] The building, often known as Ponchikanots building, because it housed one of Yerevan's first cafés, which served ponchiks, a kind of pastry.[4][1]