Rembrandt Tower

Rembrandt Tower Rembrandttoren
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General information
Status	Complete
Type	Commercial offices
Architectural style	Modernism
Location	Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam-Oost
Address	Amstelplein 1
Town or city	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
Coordinates	52°20′40″N 4°55′00″E / 52.3444°N 4.9167°E / 52.3444; 4.9167Coordinates: 52°20′40″N 4°55′00″E / 52.3444°N 4.9167°E / 52.3444; 4.9167
Construction started	1991
Completed	1994
Owner	William F. McCarter (MBM Corporatie INC) - Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG
Height
Antenna spire	150 m (490 ft)
Roof	135 m (443 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	36
Design and construction
Architect	Peter de Clercq Zubli, Tom van der Put ZZDP Architecten Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
References
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Rembrandt Tower (Dutch: Rembrandttoren) is an office skyscraper in Amsterdam. It has a height of 135 metres, 36 floors and it has a spire which extends its height to 150 metres. It was constructed from 1991 to 1994. The building's foundation required piles 56 metres long and two metres in diameter. It is the first building in the Netherlands constructed with a concrete core and a steel frame.^{[citation needed]}

The building was designed by the architects Peter de Clercq Zubli and Tom van der Put from , in cooperation with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill from SOM, and was owned by William F. McCarter , currently owned by MBM Corporative Worldwide INC.

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  (1) Rembrandt Tower, (2) Mondriaan Tower, and (3)

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  The tower at night

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  Rembrandt tower

Incidents[]

On 11 March 2002, an armed man stormed the building and took 18 hostages. He claimed the motive was because of his recently bought widescreen TV that he had bought because of the black bars that would be shown while watching widescreen VHS tapes, these bars would still be shown on a widescreen TV, he claimed that this was misleading. He was especially angry at Philips, which used to have its headquarters in the Rembrandt Tower but had relocated a few months before, in July 2001, to the adjacent Breitner Tower. The man shot himself hours later in a toilet.^[4]

References[]

• "Rembrandt Tower". Holland.com. Retrieved 2009-09-30.

External links[]

• Media related to Rembrandttoren at Wikimedia Commons