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Hotel Kanárek Praha

Hotel Kanárek

Prague out of center → Hostivař, Prague 15 • 5.7 mi ( 9.2 km ) from Dancing House

Prague Hotel Kanarek is 3-star family Prague hotel located in the eastern part of Prague Hostivar nearby the exit to Brno, Hradec Králové, Liberec, Teplice, Karlovy Vary, České Budějovice.Quiet surrounding of the hotel provides restful Prague accommodation in 31 rooms comfortably equipped with WC, shower, satellite TV, balcony and telephone. Price of rooms including breakfast. Parking lot is the hotel.

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HOTEL BELLA Praha

HOTEL BELLA

Prague out of center → Hloubětín, Prague 14 • 5.7 mi ( 9.2 km ) from Dancing House
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Ramada Airport Hotel Prague Praha

Ramada Airport Hotel Prague

Prague out of center → Ruzyně, Prague 6 • 5.9 mi ( 9.5 km ) from Dancing House

Ramada Hotel Airport Prague, from the category of four star Prague hotels, is modern hotel located at Prague International Airport Ruzyne, Terminal 3. Thanks to its location, its high quality level of services and welcoming personnel, the hotel is a perfect place for business travellers, short city breaks and transit Prague accommodation. The hotel offers its guests accommodation near Prague airport in comfortably furnished rooms, restaurant with Czech and international cuisine, full-service meeting rooms and quiet working area in the hotel's business center.

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Penzion a Restaurace Šimanda Praha

Penzion a Restaurace Šimanda

Prague out of center → Kyje, Prague 9 • 6.0 mi ( 9.6 km ) from Dancing House
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Hotel Villa Olivia Praha

Hotel Villa Olivia

Prague out of center → Kyje, Prague 14 • 6.0 mi ( 9.6 km ) from Dancing House

The Three Star Hotel Villa Olivia is situated in a quiet residential area of Prague 9. It is located about 15 minutes from the city center. The hotel consists of two renovated villas and is situated in a beautiful garden with swimming pool and barbecue area and offers its clients a calm, comfortable and friendly atmosphere. Accommodation in luxury rooms and family suite. All rooms have a wifi connection, and parking is free on site.

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Studio Bastien u letiště Praha

Studio Bastien u letiště

Prague out of center → Prague-Zličín • 6 mi ( 9.7 km ) from Dancing House

Design a very nice compact studio (35 m2) with a terrace and garden in the locality of Prague 5 near Vaclav Havel AIRPORT (15 min by car). This studio is fully equipped and it's a great base for your stay if you want to explore Prague CITY CENTRE (20min by metro) and surroundings of Prague (Karlštejn castle), enjoy outdoor activities or even if you are only driving through.
Smoking is allowed on the terrace.
Are you travelling with a pet? Please, ask us for conditions when booking.

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Prager Praha

Prager

Prague out of center → Šeberov, Šeberov • 6.1 mi ( 9.9 km ) from Dancing House
Small family-run guest house and camping in Prague 4. 100 m bus station, 1km underground station, 1km from the motorway Prague-Brno (exit Brno-Prague 2A or Exit 2 Praha-Brno). Parking on the enclosed grounds, peaceful surroundings. Breakfast. Check in: 12.00-10 PM
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Pension Milk inn Praha - Apartment

Pension Milk inn

Prague → Kyje, Prague 14 • 6.2 mi ( 9.9 km ) from Dancing House

Pension Milk Inn offers accommodation in a quiet residential area of ​​Prague, about 12 km from the historic city center. Accommodation in a modern and comfortable rooms and suites. Pension Milk Inn has a private supervised car park and also wifi connection in all rooms.

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Blue Orange Business Resort Prague Praha

Blue Orange Business Resort Prague

Prague out of center → Letňany, Prague 18 • 6.3 mi ( 10.1 km ) from Dancing House

Blue Orange Business Resort Prague is a unique center with a friendly environment providing high services in the field of fitness, wellness, relaxation, gastronomy, hotel industry, conferences and entertainment. With a wide range of services we can satisfy even the most demanding clients. 

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Hotel MAX Praha

Hotel MAX

Prague out of center → Hostavice, Prague 14 • 6.3 mi ( 10.2 km ) from Dancing House
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Hotel Mondeo Praha

Hotel Mondeo

Prague out of center → Dolní Měcholupy, Dolní Měcholupy • 6.4 mi ( 10.3 km ) from Dancing House

We provide transportation from airport pickups, communicate by e-mail in English, German, Russian, Polish, Croatian, Italián, Spanish.

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Holiday Inn Prague Airport Praha

Holiday Inn Prague Airport

Prague out of center → Ruzyně, Prague 6 • 6.5 mi ( 10.5 km ) from Dancing House

The Holiday Inn Prague Airport is brand new highly modern 4 star hotel in Prague with an excellent position right at International Airpport – Ruzyne. The hotel is sitauted only about 8 minutes walk from the Terminals North 1 and 2 next to the Travel Service building. Although located within the airport,the enviroment is quiet with the hotel building facing green area and hotel garden directly accessible.

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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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