Rembrandt Tower

Rembrandt Tower Rembrandttoren

General information
Status	Complete
Type	Commercial offices
Architectural style	Modernism
Location	Amstelplein 1 Amsterdam, 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
Completed	1994
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.

The building was designed by the architects Peter de Clercq Zubli and Tom van der Put from ZZDP Architecten, in cooperation with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill from SOM.

(1) Rembrandt Tower, (2) Breitner Tower, and (3) Mondriaan Tower
The tower at night
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 the restroom with what was later fount to be a pellet gun.^[4]

References

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

External links

Media related to Rembrandttoren at Wikimedia Commons

Tallest buildings in the Netherlands

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Towers	Euromast (186 m) Mediumwave transmitter Lopik (192 m) Mediumwave transmitter Flevoland (195 m) KPN-Zendmast Hilversum (196 m) KPN-Zendmast Waalhaven (199 m) Zendmast Wieringermeer (204.5 m) KNMI-mast Cabauw (213 m) Zendstation Smilde (303.5 m) Gerbrandytoren Lopik (366.8 m)

Skyscrapers	World Port Center (Rotterdam) (123 m) Nieuwbouw Erasmus Medisch Centrum (Rotterdam) (125 m) The Red Apple (Rotterdam) (124 m) Millennium Tower (Rotterdam) (131 m) De Kroon (The Hague) (132 m) Het Strijkijzer (The Hague) (132 m) Rembrandt tower (Amsterdam) (135 m) Hoftoren (The Hague) (142 m) Westpoint (Tilburg) (142 m) City Tower (The Hague) (142 m) Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (The Hague) (146 m) Ministry of Security and Justice (The Hague) (146 m) De Rotterdam (Rotterdam) (149 m) Delftse Poort (Rotterdam) (151 m) Montevideo (Rotterdam) (152 m) New Orleans (Rotterdam) (158 m) Maastoren (Rotterdam) (165 m)

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