Dancing House
| Dancing House | |
|---|---|
Tančící dům | |
Interactive map of the Dancing House area | |
| Former names | Nationale-Nederlanden Building |
| Alternative names | Ginger and Fred |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Postmodernism |
| Location | Prague, C R, Rašínovo nábřeží 80, Prague 2, 120 00, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Coordinates | 50°04′32″N 14°24′51″E / 50.07556°N 14.41417°E |
| Construction started | 1992 |
| Completed | 1996 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architects | Vlado Milunić, Frank Gehry |
The Dancing House (Czech: Tančící dům), or Ginger and Fred, is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building on the Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašín Embankment) in Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The building was designed in 1992. The construction, carried out by BESIX, was completed four years later in 1996.
Gehry originally called the house Ginger and Fred (after the dancers Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire – the house resembles a pair of dancers), but the nickname Ginger & Fred is now mainly used for the restaurant located on the seventh floor of the Dancing House Hotel. Gehry himself later discarded his own idea, as he was "afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague".