Rembrandt Tower ( nl, Rembrandttoren, ) is an office skyscraper in

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. 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

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. 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, these bars would still be shown on a widescreen TV, he claimed that this was misleading. He was especially angry at

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, 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.Skyscraper gunman commits suicide
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Mondriaan Tower The Mondriaan Tower (Dutch: ''Mondriaantoren'') is a skyscraper in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is the second tallest building in the city. The tower is located at the omval, an island in the Amstel river. The Mondriaantoren is 125 meters high a ...

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References

External links

Official website
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