Talk:Dancing House

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Name

This building is officially the Nationale-Nederlanden Building[1][2][3] Ando228 (talk) 16:33, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Media

A better picture is already in wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prag_ginger_u_fred_gehry.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dawtcalm (talk • contribs) 15:40, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Celeste section

I removed this section from the article:

One of the structure's most appealing features, Celeste is a fine-dining restaurant located in the building. It draws a large crowd on a consistent basis. Former head chef Gwendal Le Ruyet, a world renowned French cook, leads the kitchen staff to cook for hundreds of customers each week between 2009 and 2012. He then open Grand Cru restaurant & wine bar in Prague 1.

Not only does it use language inappropriate for an encyclopedia (e.g., "most appealing"), it also lacks any citations despite making strong claims. As it is, this is basically just an advertisement for the restaurant, and needs to be both rewritten and appropriately cited before it should be restored. siafu (talk) 01:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Misc

I removed the following sentence:

You cannot enter the building unless you can prove you have legitimate business with the multi-national tenants or a reservation at Celeste.

First off, it's not written in encyclopedic language, should be something more like "Entry is restricted to those who have reservations at Celeste or other legitimate business..." The real problems, however, are that it lacks a citation and lacks any explanation-- what does it mean to "prove you have legitimate business"? Who controls this? Private security, presumably, but who decides what is legitimate business? How is it proven? Without such information, this does not belong in a wikipedia article. siafu (talk) 01:45, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Structure (translation mess)

This section is nigh-incomprehensible. It would appear the google-translated source material was lazily copied and pasted, then sloppily edited to give the appearance of paraphrasing (although it is, improperly, in quotations). Standard Wikipedia practice, I know, but this case particularly fails to make since.

Somewhat less sloppily retranslated from the Spanish version of the source material(1)

In the middle of a square of buildings from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the Dancing House has two main parts. The first is a glass tower that narrows at half its height and is supported by curved pillars; the second runs parallel to the river and is characterized by undulating mouldings and unaligned windows.

This design was driven mainly by aesthetic considerations: aligned windows would make evident that the building has two more floors (2), although it is the same height as the two adjacent nineteenth century buildings. The windows have protruding frames, such as those of paintings, as the designer intended for them to have a three-dimensional effect (3). The winding mouldings on the facade also serve to confuse perspective and diminish contrast with the surrounding buildings.

1) This is most likely the source of the English version of the source material, as the Spanish verb "evidenciarían"--(they) would make evident--remains untranslated in the text.

2) The word used in the source is "windows"; without seeing the interior of the Dancing House, the possibility that a floor might have two rows of windows cannot be ruled out, but it seems unlikely. The surrounding buildings appear to have five floors (and probably higher ceilings) while the Dancing House appears to have six in the 'block' section and seven in the 'towers'.

3) Paraphrased and summarized into making sense. This is what the source means to say, more or less.220.221.137.140 (talk) 16:58, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

the then little-known dissident Václav Havel

In 1986, Václav Havel was an internationally-renowned playwright. He may have been passed over for official recognition back home (a prophet in his own country, etc.), but abroad his reputation was already secure.

Nuttyskin (talk) 21:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)