Vlado Milunic, a Czech architect of Croatian ancestry who co-designed Prague's iconic Dancing House building together with his colleague Frank Gehry, has died at 81.
A view of the Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. Vlado Milunić, a Czech architect of Croatian origin, who co-designed Prague's iconic Dancing House together with his famed colleague Frank Gehry, has died on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. He was 81. Vlado Milunić, a Czech architect of Croatian ancestry who co-designed Prague's iconic Dancing House building together with his colleague Frank Gehry, has died at 81.
The Dancing House is an unusual building that resembles a pair of dancers; It's is a rare example of top contemporary architecture in Prague, which otherwise abounds with picturesque historical buildings, churches and monuments. It's located on the bank of the Vltava River next to the building where the late President Vaclav Havel used to live. It was built on a plot of land that earlier housed a 19th-century neo-Renaissance building that was destroyed in a World War II air bombardment.
Their nine-story project was completed in 1996 and was named among "The Best Design of 1996" by Time magazine.
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