Nationale-Nederlanden building by Vlado Milunić & Frank Gehry, 1996
Tančící dům (Dancing House) or Fred and Ginger
Rašínovo nábřeží
Prague, September 2017
“The Dancing House (Czech: Tančící dům), or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building on the Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašín Embankment) in Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The building was designed in 1992. The construction, carried out by BESIX, was completed four years later in 1996. Gehry originally called the house Fred and Ginger (after the dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – the house resembles a pair of dancers) but this nickname is now rarely used. Gehry himself later discarded his own idea, as he was ‘afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague’.” (Dancing House, Wikipedia)
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