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.

Rembrandt Tower
Rembrandttoren
General information
StatusComplete
TypeCommercial offices
Architectural styleModernism
LocationWatergraafsmeer, Amsterdam-Oost
AddressAmstelplein 1
Town or city Amsterdam
Country Netherlands
Coordinates52.3444°N 4.9167°E / 52.3444; 4.9167
Construction started1991
Completed1994
OwnerWilliam F. McCarter (MBM Corporatie INC) - Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG
Height
Antenna spire150 m (490 ft)
Roof135 m (443 ft)
Technical details
Floor count36
Design and construction
ArchitectPeter de Clercq Zubli, Tom van der Put ZZDP Architecten
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
References
[1][2][3]

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.

  • (1) Rembrandt Tower, (2) Mondriaan Tower, and (3) Breitner 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.[4]

References
  1. Rembrandt Tower at Emporis
  2. "Rembrandt Tower". SkyscraperPage.
  3. Rembrandt Tower at Structurae
  4. Skyscraper gunman commits suicide
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