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Clarion Hotel Prague Old Town Praha

Clarion Hotel Prague Old Town

Prague centre → Old Town, Prague 1 • 1.3 mi ( 2 km ) from Dancing House

Clarion Hotel Prague Old Town, one of the 4-star Prague luxury Hotels, member of the global hotel chain Choise Hotels International. Hotel is ideally located directly in the city centre of Prague, in a direct proximity to all major Prague sights. Hotel offers Prague accommodation with outstanding comfort, accurate services and cozy atmosphere in 90 modern rooms and three luxury adjacent suites. For frequent guest loyalty program is available.

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Angelo Hotel Design Prague Praha - Double room

Angelo Hotel Design Prague

Prague out of center → Jinonice, Prague 5 • 1.3 mi ( 2 km ) from Dancing House

The Angelo Design Hotel Praha, from category 4 star hotels in Prague, is situated near the historical part of Prague, in the new shopping & business area "Anděl City". There are 2 multiplex cinema centres and the largest Prague commercial centre “Obchodni centrum Novy Smichov” with more than 130 branded shops and restaurants. The underground station "Anděl" adjacent to the suites and hotel ensures a quick connection to the historical city centre with its famous sights. The bus and tram stops are located only a few metres from this Prague apartmnets.

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Art Deco Imperial Hotel Prague Praha

Art Deco Imperial Hotel Prague

Prague close to center → New Town, Prague 1 • 1.3 mi ( 2 km ) from Dancing House

Art Deco Imperial Hotel Prague is located in center of Prague in Republic Square. The hotel has a fitness center and sauna, which guests can use for free. The nearest metro station is just 200 m - Republic Square, line B. The main station is also only 200 meters and Wenceslas Square can be reached in 10 min. The hotel has a private garage and the entire building is available to internet.

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Bed and Breakfast Residence Kralovsky Vinohrad Praha

Bed and Breakfast Residence Kralovsky Vinohrad

Prague center → Vinohrady, Prague 2 • 1.3 mi ( 2.1 km ) from Dancing House

Prague B&B Pension Kralovsky Vinohrad offers comfortable accommodation in Prague in one of the central quarters of Prague, called Královské Vinohrady. The pension is placed in a former block of flats built in 1910 carrying certain historic architectural features.

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Hotel Otakar Praha

Hotel Otakar

Prague out of center → Nusle, Prague 4 • 1.3 mi ( 2.1 km ) from Dancing House

Family Hotel Otakar (Merlin) Praha, from category 3 star hotels in Prague, is beautiful, secession building situated in the centre zone of Prague, walk distance to Vyšehrad, Congress centre, 4 tram stations to the Museum - Wenceslas Square. Restaurants, buffets, internet-cafe, entartaiment places nearby. 

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Hotel Questenberk Praha

Hotel Questenberk

Prague center → Prague Castle District, Prague 1 • 1.3 mi ( 2.1 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel Questenberk Praha, from category 4 star hotels in Prague, is situated only a short walk away from the Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral between the Strahov Monastery and Loreta right in the historical center of Golden Prague. It offers a unique and very romantic view of the historical part of the city. You can easily get to the centre, to shopping areas as well as to entertainment and especially to the old part of Prague in a pleasant approximately ten-minute walk. 

 

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Hotel Loreta Praha

Hotel Loreta

Prague centre → Prague Castle District, Prague 1 • 1.4 mi ( 2.2 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel Loreta Prague from category 3 star Prague hotels, is located in one of the most picturesque corners of old Prague, Loreto Square at the Prague Castle. Hotel Loreta provide accommodation for guests in a cozy hotel with a family atmosphere. This hotel offers accommodation in Prague in 20 rooms.

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Hotel Popelka Praha

Hotel Popelka

Prague out of center → Košíře, Prague 5 • 1.4 mi ( 2.2 km ) from Dancing House

Praha Hotel Popelka from category 4 star hotel in Prague, situated in a very peaceful and beautiful part of Prague, in the street called Na Popelce, a mere 100m from a street called Vrchlickeho. Hotel Popelka aims at providing those who visit Prague with a home away from home. Our guests can enjoy the comfort and pleasant atmosphere of our hotel which will enable them to relax and then genuinely enjoy a wonderful visit to historic Prague centre.

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Hotel Vysehrad Praha

Hotel Vysehrad

Prague out of center → Nusle, Prague 4 • 1.4 mi ( 2.2 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel Vysehrad Praha as a four stars Prague hotel was opened in 1995. The hotel is furnished in the 19th century decorative style. Hotel Vysehrad is situated in the Prague Downtown, just two subway stops from the Vaclavske namestí (Wenceslas Square) and next to the Prague Congress Center. The hotel is conveniently located near Prague Congress Centre, Vysehrad National Cultural Monument, Vysehrad Castle. Vysehrad Hotel offers Prague accommodation in 42 guestrooms in a 4-story property, which are composed of 4 singles rooms, 35 doubles rooms and 1 apartment room.

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MOODs Boutique Hotel Praha - Double room Deluxe

MOODs Boutique Hotel

Prague center → New Town, Prague 1 • 1.4 mi ( 2.2 km ) from Dancing House

Prague stylish boutique hotel MOODs is 4 star hotel in Prague, is quietly located in the Prague centre, Klimentska street, near riverbank Vltava. The Náměstí Republiky metro station is 400 metres and the Dlouha Trida tram stop is 300 metres away from the MOODs boutique hotel.

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Monastery Praha

Monastery

Prague center → Prague Castle District, Prague 1 • 1.4 mi ( 2.2 km ) from Dancing House

Prague hotel Monastery is romantic and cosy 4 star Prague hotel located in the historical centre of Prague in a peaceful garden of Strahov Monastery (Praha Strahovsky Klaster). Hotel Monastery offers Prague accommodation with unique and unforgettable view of the Prague Castle, Lesser Town and the Old Town embroidered by Vltava river and is located directly in the Prague center in a peaceful garden of Strahov Monastery (Praha Strahovsky Klaster) (national historic landmark, founded in 1142).

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Hotel Clement Praha

Hotel Clement

Prague center → New Town, Prague 1 • 1.4 mi ( 2.2 km ) from Dancing House

4star Hotel Clement is situated in the historical heart of Prague. Only a few steps away from the Vltava River within a walking distance of all metropolitan tourist sites and outstanding points of architecture and cultural life - Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square can be reached in a short walk.

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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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