[1] In the 1960s, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation commissioned B. V. Doshi to design the hall dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore at the same site.

A 12-by-24-foot (3.7 m × 7.3 m) stainless steel portrait of Rabindranath Tagore with his Bengali signature was added on the entrance facade.

[2] Doshi, inspired by Le Corbusier's buildings at Chandigarh and the "Box of Miracles" proposed by him, decided to use concrete to form the box-shaped exterior of the hall.

On the north and south concrete walls of the building there are a series of rigid triangular folds along the foyer and auditorium.

The perforated curtain-like entrance facade on the west joins the south and north folded walls forming a porch.