Status Complete Architectural style Modernism Antenna spire 150 m (490 ft) Floors 35 Province North Holland | Type Commercial offices Completed 1994 Height 135 m, 150 m to tip Opened 1995 | |
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Location Amstelplein 1
Amsterdam, Netherlands Owners Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG, Dijkhuis Vastgoed Management Architects Peter de Clercq Zubli, Tom van der Put Similar Mondriaan Tower, Breitnertower, Amsterdam Amstel station, Maastoren, Gebouw Delftse Poort | ||
Rembrandt tower
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.
Contents
- Rembrandt tower
- Map of Rembrandt Tower Amstelplein 1 1096 HA Amsterdam Netherlands
- Rembrandt tower outing 2nd
- Incidents
- References
Map of Rembrandt Tower, Amstelplein 1, 1096 HA Amsterdam, Netherlands
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 by William F. McCarter , currently owned by MBM Corporative Worldwide INC.
Rembrandt tower outing 2nd
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 found to be a pellet gun.