SIV 3 — the third building of the Savezno Izvršno Veće (Federal Executive Council) complex — is one of the most formally compelling administrative buildings in New Belgrade. A long, raised slab lifted on pilotis above an open ground floor, it presents a continuous horizontal facade of prefabricated concrete panels and deep-set windows that reads as a single unbroken surface of grey.
The Federal Executive Council buildings were the operational heart of socialist Yugoslavia's government — the buildings from which the country was administered. SIV 3's architecture embodies the technocratic confidence of Yugoslav self-management: rational, ordered, clean. The pilotis raise it from the ground in a gesture that owes everything to Le Corbusier but has absorbed it completely into a local idiom. Today the building houses various ministries of the Republic of Serbia, its purpose changed but its presence unchanged.