The Nationale-Nederlanden Building, popularly known as the Dancing House, stands on the Vltava riverbank in Prague, completed in 1996 to a design by the Czech-Croatian architect Vlado Milunic working with the American architect Frank Gehry, built on a lot left vacant since Allied bombing destroyed the previous building there in 1945. Its two main volumes give the building its popular nickname, sometimes called Fred and Ginger after the dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: a conventional glass tower rises alongside a narrower, curved and visibly leaning glass form that appears to twist against it, the pairing read by many observers as a dancing couple. The building's deconstructivist design proved controversial when it was completed, standing in deliberate contrast to the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau architecture that dominates the surrounding riverside streetscape in central Prague. It was originally developed for the Dutch insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden, whose name the building retains, and today houses offices along with a rooftop restaurant.
Facts
Building TypeOffice building, administrative building for Nationale-Nederlanden 2 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Dancing House | Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Czechia, located there.
Sources
1. Dancing House | Wikipedia
Article body, construction history paragraph
completed four years later in 1996
Infobox, location field
Prague, Czech Republic
- Wikipedia "Dancing House" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Nationale-Nederlanden Building, popularly known as the Dancing House, stands on the Vltava riverbank in Prague, completed in 1996 to a design by the Czech-Croatian architect Vlado Milunic working with the American architect Frank Gehry, built on a lot left vacant since Allied bombing destroyed the previous building there in 1945. Its two main volumes give the building its popular nickname, sometimes called Fred and Ginger after the dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: a conventional glass tower rises alongside a narrower, curved and visibly leaning glass form that appears to twist against it, the pairing read by many observers as a dancing couple. The building's deconstructivist design proved controversial when it was completed, standing in deliberate contrast to the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau architecture that dominates the surrounding riverside streetscape in central Prague. It was originally developed for the Dutch insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden, whose name the building retains, and today houses offices along with a rooftop restaurant.
- In Style: Postmodern Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Postmodernism
View the Source2. Dancing House Prague: Fred and Ginger building | e-architect
Article body, building history paragraphQuote, Article body, building history paragraph
it became an administrative building for the insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden.
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