Presidential Palace, Zagreb

The Presidential Palace in Zagreb is the official workplace of the President of Croatia. The president does not reside in the building, however, and it is used to house the Office of the President, while the president continues to reside in his or her private residence during the duration of their term of office.The structure covers 3700m2 and in the 2009 government budget, it was allocated 54 million kuna. As of May 2008, the office employed 170 staff with the maximum staffing level set at 191 by the Regulation on Internal Organisation of the Office of the President of Croatia.The building, formerly known as Villa Zagorje or Tito's Villa, was designed by architects Vjenceslav Richter and Kazimir Ostrogović and completed in 1964 for the former Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. It has been used as an official workplace since President Franjo Tuđman moved there following the October 1991 bombing of Banski dvori, the official presidential residence up to that point. In addition to the original building, there is also a 3500m2 annex built in 1993, an ancillary structure housing office security services and bomb shelter predating the 1990s.