Rembrandt Tower

Rembrandt Tower
Rembrandttoren
Rembrandt Tower; Rembrandttoren
	Rembrandt Tower in June 2007
General information
Status	Completed
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
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(s)	Peter de Clercq Zubli, Tom van der Put ZZDP Architecten; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
References

Rembrandt Tower (Dutch: Rembrandttoren, pronounced [ˈrɛmbrɑnˌtoːrə(n)]) 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.

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, and was owned initially by William F. McCarter and currently by MBM Corporative Worldwide Inc.

Incident

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. However, these bars would still be shown on a widescreen TV and 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]

Gallery

(1) Rembrandt Tower, (2) Mondriaan Tower, and (3) Breitner Tower
Front of the Rembrandt tower viewed from the south (2019)
Rembrandt tower (2021)

References

^ "Emporis building ID 111040". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
^ "Rembrandt Tower". SkyscraperPage.
^ Rembrandt Tower at Structurae
^ Skyscraper gunman commits suicide

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

External links

Official website

[1] "Emporis building ID 111040". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.

[2] "Rembrandt Tower". SkyscraperPage.

[3] Rembrandt Tower at Structurae

[4] Skyscraper gunman commits suicide

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