engineering

Rembrandt Tower

Rembrandt Tower is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rembrandt Tower rather than just read about it. In short: 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.

Key takeaways

Rembrandt Tower belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Rembrandt Tower to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Rembrandt Tower from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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 his motive was frustration over a recently purchased widescreen TV, which he had bought to avoid the black bars that appeared while watching widescreen VHS tapes. When he discovered that the bars still appeared even on a widescreen TV, he felt misled. His anger was particularly directed at Philips, which had its headquarters in the Rembrandt Tower until July 2001, when it relocated to the adjacent Breitner Tower. The man shot himself hours later in a toilet.

Gallery

References

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

External links

Official website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rembrandt Tower

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rembrandt Tower claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rembrandt Tower before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rembrandt Tower ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rembrandt Tower

In research: Rembrandt Tower appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rembrandt Tower in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rembrandt Tower is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1994 establishments in the Netherlands, 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands, Amsterdam-Oost, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rembrandt Tower outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Rembrandt Tower in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Rembrandt Tower means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Rembrandt Tower out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Rembrandt Tower in simple terms?

Why does Rembrandt Tower matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Rembrandt Tower?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Rembrandt Tower.