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Hotel Hejtman Praha

Hotel Hejtman

Prague close to center → Žižkov, Prague 3 • 2.4 mi ( 3.8 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel Hejtman Praha, from category 3 star Prague hotels, is just a few minutes ride from the Prague centre, located nearby the national monument on the Vítkov hill.

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HOTEL ARON Praha

HOTEL ARON

Prague close to center → Žižkov, Prague 3 • 2.4 mi ( 3.8 km ) from Dancing House

Prague Hotel Aron, from category 3 star hotels in Prague, is located in a quite residential area of Prague 3 near by the city centre. The city centre is very well and quickly accessible by the tram or bus. The historical part of Prague is 25 minutes walk from the hotel.

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Bed and Breakfast Sprint Praha - Double room

Bed and Breakfast Sprint

Prague out of center → Střešovice, Prague 6 • 2.4 mi ( 3.8 km ) from Dancing House

Prague B&B Pension Sprint is very nice pension located in the quiet surrounding of the diplomatic quarter and not too far from Prague Castle (Prazsky hrad). The location of Pension Sprint provides exceptional opportunities to make a good utilisation of the short stay in Prague and to get arround without transportation problems. Pension Motel Sprint is located only twenty minutes of walking from Prague Castle and five tram stops from the subway Hradcanska. Sprint can offer you cheap Prague accommodation in double bed rooms with complete equipment /shower, WC/ or without it.

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Hotel Ehrlich Praha

Hotel Ehrlich

Prague close to center → Žižkov, Prague 3 • 2.4 mi ( 3.8 km ) from Dancing House

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Hotel Ehrlich, from the category 4-star Prague hotels, is situated in a modern building erected in 2006 together with the Vítkov Residential Park. The hotel is located in near centre of Prague in the municipal part of Prague 3 – Zizkov. This attractive location offers direct tram or bus connection to the city centre, but also the opportunity to spend some active leisure time in one of Prague’s biggest parks.

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Hotel White House Praha

Hotel White House

Prague out of center → Jinonice, Prague 5 • 2.4 mi ( 3.8 km ) from Dancing House

White House Hotel, three star hotel in Prague 5 - Jinonice, quiet district of Prague with a lot of green around. To the historic center takes public transport 15 minutes. Metro station “Jinonická” is 300m, bus stop 100m. For quotes on a number of rooms of varying sizes please refer to price list. All rooms have full equipped with shower, WC, satellite TV, radio, direct dial telephone and internet. The accommodation charges include buffet breakfast and free use of an indoor pool and fitness center. In the hotel you can access the internet (WIFI), single price 100,-CZK.

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HOTEL EXPO Praha

HOTEL EXPO

Prague close to center → Holešovice, Prague 7 • 2.4 mi ( 3.9 km ) from Dancing House

Prague Hotel Expo, from category luxury 4 star hotels in Prague offering accommodation in Prague in 105 rooms. Hotel Expo is to be found in the immediate proximity of Prague centre nearby the area of prague exhibition grounds (Vystaviste Praha).

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Hotel Oáza Praha - Single room, Triple room

Hotel Oáza

Prague out of center → Krč, Prague 4 • 2.4 mi ( 3.9 km ) from Dancing House

OAZA Hotel is located near the city center, in a quiet residential area, 5 subway stops from Wenceslas Square. Metro is within 5 min. walk away. The big advantage is its own parking for cars and buses. The city center is in fact very difficult Park. The hotel is part of a sports complex with tennis courts and a sports hall.

Accommodation is available in 29 single, double and triple rooms, wifi is free. All rooms have balconies. Personal approach to our guests is a mutter of course.

Advantages - near the center, private parking, quiet surroundings, 5 min. by subway, just an oasis of calm

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Hostel Sir Toby`s Praha - Quad room with private bathroom

Hostel Sir Toby`s

Prague close to center → Holešovice, Prague 7 • 2.4 mi ( 3.9 km ) from Dancing House

Prague Hostel Sir Toby's, from category cheap accommodation in Prague, is situated in the happening and artistic Holesovice area. Another great thing about Sir Toby's Hostel is that it is also located within walking distance of some of Prague's best clubs - Cross Club, SaSaZu and Mecca. There is also free live music at the pub to enjoy - check in house for details.

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Pension Claudina Praha

Pension Claudina

Prague out of center → Košíře, Prague 5 • 2.4 mi ( 3.9 km ) from Dancing House

Pension Claudina offers accommodation in a residential area Cibulka, Prague 5 Kosire. The guesthouse is located 10 minutes from the shopping center Novy Smíichov and about 10 minutes from the motorway Plzen-Prague. Guesthouse has a parking. Nearby Pension Claudina are tennis courts, golf course, park, restaurant and winehouse.

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Hotel Barcelo Praha

Hotel Barcelo

Prague out of center → Nusle, Prague 4 • 2.5 mi ( 4.0 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel Barceló  Prague, from category 4 star Prague hotels, just 15 minutes by public transport from the historical center of Prague. The hotel is ideal both for your business trip and for spending your holiday. In the wider vicinity of the hotel is Prague Congress Center, BB Centrum in Prague and large shopping centers (Chodov, Pankrác and Budějovická). The hotel offers accommodation in Prague in 198 rooms and 15 suites.

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Extol Inn hotel Praha

Extol Inn hotel

Prague close to center → Holešovice, Prague 7 • 2.5 mi ( 4.0 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel Extol Inn is 3 star hotel in Prague situated close to the city centre, in a quiet part of bussiness and cultural district of Holešovice, not far from Prague Fairground. Due to the great locality it is only 12 minute tram-ride away from the historical parts of the city.

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Pension Josefina Praha

Pension Josefina

Prague close to center → Dejvice, Prague 6 • 2.5 mi ( 4 km ) from Dancing House

Bed and Breakfast Josefina is 4 star hotels in Prague, which you can find close to Prague Castle in a quiet Ořechovka villadom. It is situated not far from the airport and near Dejvická metro station too.

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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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