| Rembrandt Tower Rembrandttoren | |
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 Rembrandt Tower in June 2007 | |
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| 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 | |
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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.
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]
