The Dancing House on Rašínovo nábřeží in Prague was designed by Vlado Milunić with Frank Gehry, and Eva Jiřičná designed most of the interior. The Dutch insurer Nationale-Nederlanden sponsored it. The infobox gives 1992 to 1996 for construction, while the text says it was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.
The text calls the style deconstructivist, but the infobox says Postmodernism. The building has nine floors above ground and two below, with 3,796 square meters (40,860 sq ft) of interior space. Ninety-nine concrete panels form the facade. A glass tower called Ginger stands beside a rock tower called Fred.
An apartment building on the site was destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Prague. Milunić conceived the project in 1986. Time magazine's design contest honored the building in 1997. Two floors became a 21-room hotel in 2016, and it also holds a restaurant, a bar and an art gallery.
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