Dancing Building, Prague, Czech Republic: Creatively Challenging
Dancing Building is the life size form of dancing couples which can clearly stands out amongst the close and compact street. This creative and unconventional building has faced many criticisms for its unique design as the concept of dancing couple for architectural structure doesn’t belong to Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau, either of this art form which has mainly been the pride of Prague for long time. Instead of those it belonged to the style of deconstructivist owing to its unusual features. It was designed by the collaboration of Czech-Croatian architect Vlado Milunic and Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. Located in Rašínovo nábřeží 1981/80, Praha city centre of Prague, the location holds a major historical significance due to U.S bombings of 1945 which destroyed the whole place. The earlier name of the building was Fred and Ginger (famous dancer Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) as given by Gehry but changed out of the fear of increasing American Hollywood culture of ...