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Hotel Dahlia Inn Praha

Hotel Dahlia Inn

Prague centre → New Town, Prague 2 • 780 yd ( 720 m ) from Dancing House

Hotel Dahlia Inn is situated in heart of Prague. Wenceslas Square is 5 minutes by foot away from hotel. Near to Hotel Dahlia Inn is located Old Town. Hotel was renovated in 2008. Hotel offers accommodation in modern and comfortable rooms. All of rooms have free wifi. The part of hotel is lobby bar. Public garage is located 5 minutes by car from the hotel.

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Hotel Standard Praha

Hotel Standard

Prague centre → Vyšehrad, Prague 2 • 790 yd ( 720 m ) from Dancing House

Prague Hotel STANDARD *** offers its clients 11 tastefully and practically furnished rooms (9 double rooms, 2 suites) with air - conditioning, shower, WC, hair dryer, TV/SAT, telephone, mini-bar, safe, internet - free zone Wi-Fi.The hotel offers its clients comfortable Prague accommodation in in the house with 5 floors with a lift. In hotel restaurant with air-conditioning is served breakfast in buffet style. For the guests is a closed carpark or an independent garage at disposal for extra fee.

 

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Hotel a Residence ROYAL STANDARD Praha - Luxury apartment (4 people)

Hotel a Residence ROYAL STANDARD

Prague center → Vyšehrad, Prague 2 • 790 yd ( 730 m ) from Dancing House

Prague Apartments Residence STANDARD **** offers very cosy Prague accommodation in luxury apartments (100 m2) with stunning view on Prague Castle. The art nouveau house is a national monument of culture and was built in 1913 in the historic centre of Prague on the bank of the river Vltava between the National Theatre and High Castle (Vysehrad). In the immediate neighbourhood are the stations for the tram and metro. The position here is ideal because of the easy access to historical monuments and cultural buildings in Prague.

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Welcome Hostel Prague Center Praha - Double room

Welcome Hostel Prague Center

Prague center → New Town, Prague 1 • 800 yd ( 730 m ) from Dancing House

Welcome Hostel Prague Center is one of the Welcome hostels in Prague. It has an excellent location directly in the city center of Prague, near all major tourist attractions. Hostel offers in clean spacious four bedded, triple, single and double rooms. There are rooms with own WC and shower and rooms where the WC and shower are on the floor.

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Lavanda Hotel&Apartments Prague*** Praha

Lavanda Hotel&Apartments Prague***

Prague close to center → Smíchov, Prague 5 • 800 yd ( 730 m ) from Dancing House

Aparthotel Na Bělidle, is 3 star hotels in Prague located in the quiet street and offers cheap Prague accommodation only 100 meters from popular entertainment and shopping centre Nový Smíchov. Historic centre of Prague is only 1 km from the hotel and is easily accessible by foot, metro or tram.

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Hotel 16 - U Sv. Kateriny Praha

Hotel 16 - U Sv. Kateriny

Prague centre → New Town, Prague 2 • 800 yd ( 730 m ) from Dancing House

Family Hotel 16 - U Sv. Kateriny Praha, from category 4 star Prague hotels, is located in close proximity to the botanical garden only 8 minutes walking distance from the Wenceslas Square – the main Prague's square and simultaneously the business center of Prague. At the same time you can reach also the historical heart of the city. Old Town Square is only 15 minutes walking distance and direct Tram Station to Prague Castle is located only 2 minutes walking distance from the hotel.

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Aparthotel PurPur Praha

Aparthotel PurPur

Prague centre → New Town, Prague 1 • 810 yd ( 740 m ) from Dancing House

Aparthotel PurPur with great location in the very centre of Old Prague town only a few minute walks from the famous Wenceslas Square and all major sightseeing attractions. Opened in 2009, it offers 22 modern and stylish superior city tourist class studio apartments in Prague, surrounded by many clubs, pubs, restaurants and shops. Wireless Internet access free of charge all over the building.

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Bohemia Apartments Prague Centre Praha

Bohemia Apartments Prague Centre

Prague centre → New Town, Prague 1 • 820 yd ( 750 m ) from Dancing House
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Hostel Daniela Praha

Hostel Daniela

Prague centre → New Town, Prague 1 • 820 yd ( 750 m ) from Dancing House

Set 300 metres from Wenceslas Square and Charles Square in Prague, Hostel Daniela offer cheap accommodation in city centre. Old Town Square can be reached within a 10-minute walk. 

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Hotel Eurostars Thalia Praha

Hotel Eurostars Thalia

Prague center → Old Town, Prague 1 • 830 yd ( 760 m ) from Dancing House

Hotel Eurostars Thalia Praha, from category 5 star Prague hotels, is located in the centre of Prague. Hotel was built in a classical building that dated from XIX century. Hotel Thalia has a strategic location, just a few meters to the Národni Trida tube station and to 5 minutes to the National Theatre and Wenceslas Square. 

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Aparthotel Austria Suites Praha

Aparthotel Austria Suites

Prague close to center → Smíchov, Prague 5 • 830 yd ( 760 m ) from Dancing House

Austria Suites Praha, from category 3 star Prague hotels, is located of the building is on a busy street, all suites are quiet as they are facing the atrium of the palace. The suites are convenient for business clients and tourists. The attractive location of Palace Austria next to the shopping mall and business centre Anděl and near all major sights of Prague is another benefit and reason to stay here. 

 

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Apartment Prague Narodni trida 17 Praha

Apartment Prague Narodni trida 17

Prague centre → Old Town, Prague 1 • 830 yd ( 760 m ) from Dancing House
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Dancing House (Tančící dům)

The Dancing House (Czech: Tančící dům) or Fred and Ginger is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in Prague, Czech Republic, at Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašín's riverbank). It was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.

The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time because the house stands out among the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings for which Prague is famous and in the opinion of some it does not accord well with these architectural styles. The then Czech president, Václav Havel, who lived for decades next to the site, had avidly supported this project, hoping that the building would become a center of cultural activity.

Gehry originally named the house Fred and Ginger (after the famous dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – the house resembles a pair of dancers) but this nickname is now rarely used; moreover, Gehry himself was later "afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague", and thus discarded his own idea.

Origin

The “Dancing House” is set on a property of great historical significance. Its site was the location of a house destroyed by the U.S. bombing of Prague in 1945. The plot and structure lay decrepit until 1960 when the area was cleared. The neighbouring plot was co-owned by the family of Václav Havel who spent most of his life there. As early as 1986 (during the Communist era) V. Milunić, then a respected architect in the Czechoslovak milieu, conceived an idea for a project at the place and discussed it with his neighbour, the then little-known dissident Václav Havel. A few years later, during the Velvet Revolution Havel became a popular leader and was subsequently elected president of Czechoslovakia. Thanks to his authority the idea to develop the site grew.[citation needed] Havel eventually decided to have Milunić survey the site, hoping for it to become a cultural center, although this was not the result.

The Dutch insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden (since 1991 ING Bank) agreed to sponsor the building of a house on site. The “super bank” chose Milunić as the lead designer and asked him to partner with another world-renowned architect to approach the process. The French architect Jean Nouvel turned down the idea because of the small square footage, but the well-known Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry accepted the invitation. Because of the bank's excellent financial state at the time, it was able to offer almost unlimited funding for the project. From their first meeting in 1992 in Geneva, Gehry and Milunić began to elaborate 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 (Czechia) from a communist regime to a parliamentary democracy.

Structure

The style is known as deconstructivist (“new-baroque” to the designers) architecture due to its unusual shape. The “dancing” shape is supported by 99 concrete panels, each a different shape and dimension. On the top of the building is a large twisted structure of metal nicknamed Medusa.

“In the interior of a square of buildings in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the Dancing House has two central bodies. The first is a tower of glass that is close to half height and is supported by curved pillars, the second runs parallel to the river, which is characterized by the moldings that follow a wavy motion and distributed through the windows so the non-aligned.[clarification needed] This solution has been driven mainly by a kind of aesthetic consideration: the windows lined evidenciarían that the building has two windows, although they have the same height as the two adjacent buildings of the nineteenth century.[clarification needed] They also do not have to be perceived in the will of the designer, as simple forms on a flat surface, but must achieve the effect of three-dimensionality, hence the idea of frames as outgoing frames of paintings. Also the winding moldings on the facade make it more confusing perspective, diminishing the contrast with the buildings that surround it."

Awards

The general shape of the building is now featured on a gold 2,000 Czech koruna coin issued by the Czech National Bank. The coin completes a series called “Ten Centuries of Architecture”.

t:source: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tančící_dům

Landmarks near Dancing House

  • Alpský dvůr
    160 yd ( 150 m ) from Dancing House
  • Kostel sv. Václava na Zderaze
    170 yd ( 150 m ) from Dancing House
  • Jiráskův most a okolí
    210 yd ( 190 m ) from Dancing House
  • Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral
    240 yd ( 220 m ) from Dancing House
  • Public transport station Palackého náměstí
    340 yd ( 310 m ) from Dancing House
  • Zítkovy sady
    360 yd ( 330 m ) from Dancing House
  • Palackého most a okolí
    360 yd ( 330 m ) from Dancing House
  • Metro station Karlovo náměstí
    360 yd ( 330 m ) from Dancing House
  • Public transport station Moráň
    380 yd ( 350 m ) from Dancing House
  • Public transport station Karlovo náměstí
    390 yd ( 360 m ) from Dancing House
  • České vysoké učení technické na Karlově náměstí
    400 yd ( 370 m ) from Dancing House
  • Divadlo bez opony
    410 yd ( 380 m ) from Dancing House
  • Central Parking Prague
    430 yd ( 390 m ) from Dancing House
  • Public transport station Dětský ostrov
    430 yd ( 400 m ) from Dancing House
  • Public transport station Myslíkova
    440 yd ( 400 m ) from Dancing House
  • Faustův dům
    440 yd ( 400 m ) from Dancing House
  • Palác Žofín
    460 yd ( 420 m ) from Dancing House
  • Charles Square
    460 yd ( 420 m ) from Dancing House
  • Emauzy
    500 yd ( 450 m ) from Dancing House
  • Kostel sv. Jana Na Skalce
    510 yd ( 460 m ) from Dancing House

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