Rembrandt Tower (Dutch: Rembrandttoren, pronounced [ˈrɛmbrɑnˌtoːrə(n)]) is an office skyscraper in Amsterdam.
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.