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Hotel International Prague  Praha

Hotel International Prague

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

The Hotel Crowne Plaza Prague, a declared National Monument, is classified as a four star deluxe hotel, located in the residential embassy district of Prague, in the immediate vicinity of the Prague Castle and offers its clients luxury accommodation in Prague. As you discover the Golden City of Prague, be sure to visit its famous majestic and imposing buildings, such as the world-famous Prague Castle and its palaces, take in the charming ambience of Mala Strana, enjoy observing the various artists on the medieval Charles Bridge and relax in one of the various street cafés on the celebrated Old Town Square.

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Dorint Hotel Don Giovanni Prague Praha

Dorint Hotel Don Giovanni Prague

Prague center → Žižkov, Prague 3 • 2.6 mi ( 4.2 km ) from Dancing House

Prague hotel Dorint Don Giovanni from category 4 star Prague hotels named after the famous Mozart opera, which enjoyed its maiden performance in Prague in 1787, the hotel lobby resembles a large theater. This hotel in Prague radiates the charm of a wonderful bygone era in its own highly modern way. The hotel's design has been based on "Don Giovanni" the famous and notorious womanizer in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera which was first performed in Prague in 1787. Enjoy modern comforts and friendly service by staying in one of the hotels 397 non-smoking superior rooms and spacious family suites.

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Exe Iris Hotel Praha

Exe Iris Hotel

Prague out of center → Vršovice, Prague 10 • 2.6 mi ( 4.2 km ) from Dancing House

Accommodation in Prague - Congress Hotel Iris, is 4 star hotel in Prague built as a part of the multi-purpose sports complex on the edge of Prague centre. Congress Hotel Iris is situated 10-15 minutes by public transport from the centre of Prague - Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske namesti), Museum, Opera.

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Motel Grado Praha

Motel Grado

Prague out of center → Jinonice, Prague 5 • 2.6 mi ( 4.2 km ) from Dancing House

Motel Grado is located near to the center of Prague (about 15 minutes by metro). Near is metro stop Jinonice, which is remote about 250 m. Motel offers to guests accommodation in 1 to 4-bedded rooms. There is a wifi conection in each room. Motel has a restaurant, open air-restaurant with grill and with children playground. Close to the motel is shopping centre Galerie Nove Butovice. There is a possibility to parking in the hotel area.

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ADALBERT Ecohotel *** Praha

ADALBERT Ecohotel ***

Prague out of center → Břevnov, Prague 6 • 2.6 mi ( 4.2 km ) from Dancing House

Prague Hotel Adalbert is very interesting 3-star Prague hotel located on the grounds of the Brevnov monastery (Praha Brevnovsky klaster), established in 993A.D., one of the oldest benedictine monasteries in the Czech republic. Hotel Adalbert is also conveniently close to the Prague Castle (Prazsky Hrad) which is one of the great historical landmarks of the city. The International Prague airport Ruzyne is only 15min by car from hotel Adalbert, which makes this location ideal for both business convenience and access to the historical Prague centre.

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Hotel Vítkov Praha

Hotel Vítkov

Prague close to center → Žižkov, Prague 3 • 2.6 mi ( 4.2 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel Vitkov Praha is situated in the historical and peaceful area of Žižkov, close to the Vítkov Monument and biggest park in central location. The Old Town Square and other Prague attractions are 15-20 minutes away from the hotel.  

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HOTEL ILF Praha

HOTEL ILF

Prague out of center → Krč, Prague 4 • 2.7 mi ( 4.3 km ) from Dancing House

Prague Hotel ILF is 3-star hotel and has enough beds for 326 guests. Hotel ILF can offer Prague accommodation in single rooms, double rooms, and suites. All rooms of Hotel ILF have an en suite bathroom and toilet, a satellite TV, and a telephone with direct dialling. Half of the rooms of Hotel ILF are furnished to suit the study requirements of clients working in medicine.

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Hotel MONICA Praha

Hotel MONICA

Prague out of center → Braník, Prague 4 • 2.7 mi ( 4.3 km ) from Dancing House

Prague Hotel Monica, from the category 3 Prague hotels, is situated on a beautiful place with unique view over Prague city. Hotel Monica offers its guests convenient and comfort Prague accommodation in a fashionably designed area, which is toned with pleasant warm colours. If you wish so, sit by the fireplace in our restaurant or taste the Pilsner beer in our bar. For candle-light dinners we recommend you taking a seat on the terrase with a charming view of Prague.

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LEON Hotel Praha

LEON Hotel

Prague close to center → Holešovice, Prague 7 • 2.7 mi ( 4.3 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel Leon offers you cheap accommodation close to the center of Prague. In this quiet area of Prague 7 - Holešovice you can really enjoy magic atmosphere of this wonderful city. In the neighbourhood of hotel Leon is Prague's largest park Stromovka, great place for joging or romantic walk and Křižíkova fountain, Prague Zoo etc.

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Pension Hanspaulka Praha

Pension Hanspaulka

Prague out of center → Dejvice, Prague 6 • 2.7 mi ( 4.4 km ) from Dancing House

Family pension in a residential neighborhood of villas with gardens. Premium security, easy parking, ideal access to the center - especially the historical part of Old Town. Prague Castle is nearby and accessible by public transportation without transfers. Pension is ideally situated to ruzyňskému airport. Family background offers, help and also discretion. Rooms have private entrance from the central staircase. Breakfast also possible according to the wishes of people. Parking is free

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Hotel U Divadla Praha

Hotel U Divadla

Prague out of center → Braník, Prague 4 • 2.7 mi ( 4.4 km ) from Dancing House

Hotel U Divadla Praha, from category 4 star hotels in Prague, is located nearby a famous historical monument Vyšehrad, with an excellent acces to the historical and business Prague centre. This quality and art-nouveou hotel with a local atmosphere can offer you a stylish restaurant, café – bar with a garden terrasa and wine room.  

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Villa na Vinici Praha

Villa na Vinici

Prague out of center → Krč, Prague 4 • 2.7 mi ( 4.4 km ) from Dancing House

The completely reconstructed villa offers accommodation with complimentary breakfast near the centre of Prague.  Rooms are luxuriously furnished in a modern design, and a rooftop suite is perfect for both short-term accommodation and long-term stays in Prague.

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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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