The Puppet Theater building on Radničkih Saveta Square (today known as Patrijarha Pavla Square) was built in 1974. The designer was the Niš architect Predrag Janić, who designed most of the buildings in the square.

The art of puppeteering has been developing in Niš since 1951, when the Puppet Theater was founded. The theater changed locations several times until 1977, when it moved into the purpose-built building. This building is the only one in Serbia which is functionally intended for puppet theater art, and the investor was the United Tobacco Industry (UDI), which in the beginning used the administrative part of the building in the right wing section. Today it is being used by a number of institutions.

The Puppet Theater building was designed and constructed out of natural concrete (which is also found in the interior), and wood was also used with great success. The form of the building is cubic with a characteristic setback of façade planes of the floor where the theater administration is located. On the left side of the building, there is a cylindrical volume with 220 seats meant to house the audience, while the central part of the building has a dominating form of a three-sided prism rising above the stage. The southern façade features the main entrance of the building, whose ground level is glazed and set back in relation to the floor, while the entrance for the staff and actors is on the left hand side of the building.

This building is an example of the aspirations of European architecture in the 1970’s, and could be said to belong to the Brutalist movement in International Style architecture, which also characterizes the surrounding buildings.