( Photo courtesy of Dancing House )It all got me thinking about how certain buildings come to define different cities — new and old — and how some architecture is pop culture, especially in our Instagram-fuelled moment. “Welcome to Dancing House,” a woman chirped when I arrived at my destination, located on the bank of the Vltava River, after I had adjusted to the modern traveller’s vertigo of I-have-been-here-but-have-I-been-here? And when I discovered that you could actually stay inside the Dancing House, too — it has unveiled 21 suites, so that a part of it is now a hotel — the deal was sealed. “Controversial,” my guide murmured, pointing out some of the inevitable huff-and-puff about Dancing House at its beginning (“a crushed can of Coke,” went one of the jabs). Views, views, views — of which there is nary a bad one in Prague.

Source: thestar May 03, 2019 14:26 UTC