Dancing House (Ginger)
The glass part of the Dancing House is used to represent dancer Ginger Rogers.
The Dancing House, or Ginger and Fred (after the dancers Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire), is the nickname given to this building. 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 and the construction was completed in 1996.
Gehry and Milunić developed Milunić's original idea of a building consisting of two parts, static and dynamic ("yin and yang"), which were to symbolize the transition of Czechoslovakia from a communist regime to a parliamentary democracy.
In the building is the Dancing House Hotel and on the ground floor a café.
Dancing House (Ginger)
The glass part of the Dancing House is used to represent dancer Ginger Rogers.
The Dancing House, or Ginger and Fred (after the dancers Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire), is the nickname given to this building. 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 and the construction was completed in 1996.
Gehry and Milunić developed Milunić's original idea of a building consisting of two parts, static and dynamic ("yin and yang"), which were to symbolize the transition of Czechoslovakia from a communist regime to a parliamentary democracy.
In the building is the Dancing House Hotel and on the ground floor a café.