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Monday, September 19, 2016

Prague - A bit of Architecture

I can't tell you much about a lot of these buildings because fine architecture is so abundant in Prague, but I'll identify them when I can.

Around the area of our hotel, Le Palais:




Old Prague railway station 

Prague's deconstructivist "Dancing House," colloquially called "Fred & Ginger," built by Czech architect Vlado Milunić in concert with Frank Gehry, on the site of a building destroyed by U.S. bombing in 1945. It was pretty controversial, rather at odds with Prague's more traditional architecture:


So many elegant doors everywhere!




The beautiful Secessionist-era Kavarna Coffee House, opened in 1912, which retains its elegant details









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