SAMSUNG OPERA HOUSE,

B’luru
IT IS AN OPERA HOUSE WHICH WAS CONSTRUCTES IN 1910’S WITH THE
PRIMARY FUNTION BEING A BALLROOM AND FOR ALL THEATRICAL
EXPERIENCES. BUT THE OPERA HOUSE OVER TIME NEVER INTENDED TO
RETAIN ITS ORIGINAL FUNCTION.

CONTRACTOR - THOMAS C V SKIPP

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JUNCTION OF BRIGADE ROAD AND ALMOST TO THE CENTRE OF

RESIDENCY ROAD, ASHOK BENGALURU CITY
AREA- NAGAR, BENGALURU
33000Sqft  THE PROPERTY FIRST BEFORE INDEPENDENCE BELONGED TO
HISTO Mr. YUSUF SAIT
 IT WAS THEN BOUGHT BY BRITISH GOVT. TO BUILD A

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RECREATIONAL SPACE FOR THE OFFICERS IN BANGALORE.
 THE BUILDING WAS INTENDED TO BE USED AS A BALLROOM
46 AND FOR
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE.
 AFTER THE DEATH OF SKIPP, IN 1939 IT WAS USED TO
CONDUCT BOXING MATCHES DURING SECOND WORLD
WAR.
 SKIPP’S HEIRS AFTER HIS DEATH SOLD IT OT THE
PRESE MUDALIARS WHO RAN IT AS
NT A CINEMA HALL AND RENAMED IT AS THE NEW OPERA
THE HISTORY OF THIS OPERA HOUSE IS
HOUSE.
MAINLY FOCUSED ON HOW IS THE  THE MUDALIARS LEASED IT TO OTHER PEOPLE LATE WHO
CHANGE IN ITS FUNCTION OVER 100 SCREENED B-GRADE MOVIES
YEARS AND STILL HAS MANAGED TO  IN LATE 80’S IT WAS USED FOR SMALL BUSINESS LIKE
RETAIN ITS ESSENCE IN TERMS OF BANGLE’S STORES AND
PHYSICALITY AND AS THE LANDMARK ETC.
 THERE WAS A LEGAL DISPUTE BETWEEN THE OWNER OF THE
PLACE Mr.
RAMAKRISHNAN AND THE SHOPKEEPERS FOR HAVING TO
VACATE THE SPACE.
THE BUILDING NOW IS APPROXIMATELY 100 YEARS AND HAS
LATERNOT
 STILL FORLOST
2 DECADES IT WAS GHOSTED BECAUSE OF THE
ITS LEGACY.
19 DISPUTE NOBODY WOULD WALK AROUND IT TOO.
46  AFTER WINNING THE CASE IN 2008, RAMAKRISHNAN WAS
HANDED OVER THE
SPACE WITH A CONDITION THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO RETAIN
THE BUILDING AND WOULD NOT DAMAGE THE HISTORIC
PART OF IT PHYSICALLY.
 IN 2006, IT WAS LEASED TO SAMSUNG FOR 10 YEARS.
 OPERA HOUSE WAS OPEN TO PUBLIC FROM NOVEMBER
2018.
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SAMSUNG
OPERA
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B’luru

YEAR-
2000

YEAR-
Immediate
2005
Surroundings

YEAR-
2010

YEAR-
2019

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC GREEN

SPACE

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B’luru

INFERENCE :
●According to our observation most of the
buildings do not follow the FAR of the
particular area as per the zonal regulations,
as it is constructed pre independence, when
the current FAR and bye laws did not apply.
● The buildings which are constructed post
independence follow the bye laws and zonal

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