The Dancing Building

 

On our walk back we passed this building - it was one of the sight we definitely wanted to see and I really like this building. To bad I didn't know that there's actually a restaurant in this building - would have loved to get up into it and see what it looks like on the inside!
Peder took the big picture on the left side - a Vanilla Sky moment as he calls it... There was actually a lot of traffic here so it was rather lucky that he got the shot!

Materials:

• Cardstock: Club Scrap Framed
• Font: Bradley Hand ITC

Journaling:

• English version:
  During our walk along the river we passed The Dancing Building, also known as the 'Fred and Ginger' (Named after Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers). Totally cool achitecture and cool to move around in the intersection and see new angles on it all the way! It's build in 1996 and drawn by the architects Vlado Milunic and Frank O. Gehry (who among other things has made the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao!) and it's build in a spot left empty by the bombings in WWII.
  As his ideas started taking shape after the Velvet Revolution, Vlado Milunic knew he wanted to create a building which reflected the new Czechoslovakia. "The building had to reflect the situation of a Czechoslovak society who had forgotten the totalitarian past and moved into a world full of change. My first idea was to have a building with two different parts in dialogue, like static and dynamic, like plus and minus, like ying and yang. From this project of mine I also made a model."
  In the beginning it was more commonly known as the Fred and Ginger Building, now everyone seems to call it the Dancing Building- did the Fred and Ginger name just disappear?
  "That was Frank's idea but then he was afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague, though we said Fred and Ginger were artists. But in Prague many people call it the Dancing Building because it's more abstract. I call this building the Dancing Building because it's a dance after the Velvet Revolution."
  (Excerpt af interview med Vlado Milunic, http://www.radio.cz/en/article/42866)
• Danish version:
  Undervejs på vores gåtur langs floden kom vi forbi ’Den dansende bygning’, også kaldet ’Fred & Ginger’ (efter Fred Astaire og Ginger Rogers). Total fed arkitektur og fedt at bevæge sig rundt i krydset og se nye vinkler på den hele tiden! Den er bygget i 1996 og tegnet af arkitekterne Vlado Milunic og Frank O. Gehry (der bl.a. har lavet Guggenheim museet i Bilbao!) og er bygget i et tomrum, der opstod efter bombningerne i 2. verdenskrig.
  As his ideas started taking shape after the Velvet Revolution, Vlado Milunic knew he wanted to create a building which reflected the new Czechoslovakia. "The building had to reflect the situation of a Czechoslovak society who had forgotten the totalitarian past and moved into a world full of change. My first idea was to have a building with two different parts in dialogue, like static and dynamic, like plus and minus, like ying and yang. From this project of mine I also made a model."
  In the beginning it was more commonly known as the Fred and Ginger Building, now everyone seems to call it the Dancing Building- did the Fred and Ginger name just disappear?
  "That was Frank's idea but then he was afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague, though we said Fred and Ginger were artists. But in Prague many people call it the Dancing Building because it's more abstract. I call this building the Dancing Building because it's a dance after the Velvet Revolution."
  (Uddrag af interview med Vlado Milunic, http://www.radio.cz/en/article/42866)