Video: Dancing House in Prague: "Crazy" project to immortalize the memory of great dancers
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Anyone visiting Prague should definitely see this extravagant building. It is incredibly strange, fantastic and shocking for local architecture, but the inhabitants of the Czech capital are proud of it no less than the Cathedral of St. Vitus or Charles Bridge, which, by the way, is located 15 minutes walk away. The house in question resembles a dancing couple: one part of it is somewhat similar to a woman in a developing dress, the second to her male partner.
The inhabitants of Prague call this building "Ginger and Fred", "drunken house", but the nickname "Dancing House" is the most common one. After all, it seems that the building is really dancing. This effect is created by curved walls, non-parallel windows, and broken lines. In addition, the two buildings of the building seem to stand on legs.
At the corner of the Vltava River embankment and Reeslova Street, a strange building appeared relatively recently, in 1996. The initiator of the construction was the Czech President Vaclav Havel, who, incidentally, lived nearby. The building was erected on the site of a demolished old dilapidated house.
It is believed that it was the famous Hollywood creative couple Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire who inspired the Croatian architect Vlado Milunic and his Canadian colleague Frank Owen Gehry to such an extravagant project. A tandem of world famous architects has created a real miracle. At the expanding upward stone tower (one of the parts of the building) with metal "hair", the silhouette is clearly masculine, and the lighter and more airy-looking glass part clearly resembles a female figure.
On the roof of the Dancing House there is an observation deck with a gorgeous view of the city. You can exit to it directly from the premises of the restaurant, which is open at the top of the building.
Also in the Dancing House there are cafes, a bar, international offices and a huge conference center. The author of many of the interiors was the popular architect and designer from Great Britain Eva Irzichna (by the way, she is of Czech origin).
And three years ago, a hotel was also opened in an extravagant building - again with the aptly named Dancing House Hotel. Its two upper rooms, the Ginger Royal Suite and the Fred Royal Suite, are especially popular with tourists - they, like other rooms, also have a gorgeous view.
The house, created in the style of deconstructivism, first provoked a protest from the townspeople - it was too much different from the traditional Prague buildings. Needless to say, the view of the Dancing House is really crazy.
But guests who came to Prague were delighted with this building, so the residents of the capital, willy-nilly, had to accept this new attraction, and now they proudly show it to tourists.
The Dancing House even entered the top five buildings erected in the 1990s, according to the Czech magazine Architekt, and won the prestigious international iF design awards.
And on our planet there is Dancing forest. You can see him on the Curonian Spit.
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