 Today, only a small non-damaged portion of the building is used by the Ministry of Defence of Serbia.The building was built between 1957 and 1965 and it was designed by Serbian architect, Nikola Dobrović.It is divided by Nemanjina Street, and its design is meant to resemble a canyon of the Sutjeska river, where one of the most significant battles of World War II in Yugoslavia was fought, with the street as a river dividing the two monumental, gradually completed tracts.