This hotel was built in 1959 to replace the former hotel “Knjaževac”, on the corner of Voždova and Generala Tranijea streets.

The designers were Rajko Tatić and Nadežda Velimirović from Belgrade. The building was first designed as an addition to the hotel “Park”, prior to the construction of the hotel “Ambasador”. The quality of those structures, in architectonic and functional terms, but also in terms of the service provided, was high.

This is yet another characteristics example of the International Style of the 1960’s. The simple architecture of the building is characterized by a merger of two volumes of different height, with a regular alternating rhythm of openings and columns, and with a standard vertical division: a ground level, mezzanine, several floors and an attic. The horizontal lines at the level of the structure are made prominent by the usage of dark marble cladding. The hotel was reconstructed in 1993, according to the designs of the architect Jovan Mandić, which planned for the closing the terrace on the mezzanine and an addition on the east face, using a glazed aluminum structure along the entire height of the building.

The new reconstruction carried out in 2013 following the designs of the architect Sanja Drvenica from Belgrade included a change of the façade cladding, though the initial architecture was retained in the volume. Contemporary materials were used, and the newly-named hotel “Grand” was completely reconstructed and modernized through the introduction of high category services.