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Dancing House
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Key facts
- Former names
- Nationale-Nederlanden Building
- Alternative names
- Ginger and Fred
- Architectural style
- Postmodernism
- Location
- Prague, C R , Rašínovo nábřeží 80, Prague 2 , 120 00, Prague , Czech Republic
- Architects
- Vlado Milunić , Frank Gehry
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- tadu.cz
- Image
- Tančící dům - Etxe Dantzaria.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dancing House
- inception
- 1996-00-00
- native label
- Tančící dům
- postal code
- 120 00
- conscription number
- 1981
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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".