The story of this place
Where an apartment block once stood — destroyed by a stray US bomb during a 1945 raid on Prague — architects Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry raised in 1996 a startling office building of two intertwined towers: a glass 'dancer' whose waist bends into a solid stone 'partner', instantly nicknamed 'Fred and Ginger' after the Hollywood dance pair. Its rippling, non-parallel windows and crumpled forms scandalised traditionalists in a city of baroque and Gothic facades, and President Havel, who lived next door, championed it. A twisted steel spire crowns the glass tower like Ginger's tossing hair. A rooftop bar now offers one of Prague's finest river panoramas.