Constructed to celebrate Rabindranath Tagore birth Centenary in 1961.

While the exterior presented a blank brick-walled, cuboidal structure, the interior of the theatre, made in consultation with actors Prithviraj Kappor and Zul Vellani, was primarily based on first of all a careful study of design issues like acoustics, sight-lines, size of stage in relation to the size of auditorium, optimal distence for un-aided facial recognition. 

Secondarily, in its aesthetics, the original yellow and red tepestries, the processional routes entering the theatre were based on a Le Corbusier inspired "lexicon of cubism".  Some structural features, such as the massive steel trusses on the interior, were initially left visible.

Text paraphrased from Vikramaditya Prakash, Not 'Tagore Theatre', Please, in Hindustan Times Chandigarh Live, Monday Sept. 15, 2008

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