After Frank Gehry‘s Ginger and Fred building in Prague (image on the left), here’s another dance-inspired building.

Baljurk (ball dress in dutch) is situated in the centre of The Hague (The Netherlands). This part of the city (like every historical part of many cities) contains heterogeneous collections of different architectural styles and typologies.

For the last two decades the streets and alleys of the area became one of the most desolate parts of The Hague: blind and armoured windows, graffiti on the historical walls and the smell of weed and urine.

Behind the facades of eight historical plots, architecture studio Archipelontwerpers designed eight special houses, build on an elevated level. Underneath is a shopping space. They restored seven of the eight facades as a souvenir of the urban tissue before 1880, and for the last one, the architects translated the once existing historical Art Nouveau facades into Baljurk, a contemporary fragment of liquid architecture. The stainless steel wire cloth was treated to achieve a warm golden colour.

Via Architectenweb.