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Amsterdam Facts

150m+ Buildings 1 Completed
Tallest Building Rembrandt Tower (150 m)
Global Ranking #223 in the world by no. of 150m+ completed buildings
Regional Ranking #20 in Europe by no. of 150m+ completed buildings
Country Ranking #2 in Netherlands by no. of 150m+ completed buildings
First 150m+ Building Rembrandt Tower (1995)
Average Building Age 23 years
Most Common Function Office, 100%
Most Common Material Composite, 100%

All building-related facts are for 150m+ buildings.

Buildings See All Buildings in City

1   Rembrandt Tower 1995 150 m
2   Mondriaan Toren 2002 123 m
3   Maritim Congress Hotel 2020 114 m
4   Amsterdam Symphony I 2009 105 m
5   Amsterdam Symphony II 2009 105 m
6   World Trade Center Tower H 2004 105 m
7   ABN AMRO World HQ 1999 105 m
8   Overhoeks Residential Tower 2020 104 m
9   Amstel Tower 2018 100 m
10   Ito-toren 2005 100 m
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CTBUH Height Criteria
  Completed   Arch. Topped Out   Struct. Topped Out   Under Constr.
1   The Beacon 2021 92 m
2   Kavel O Crossroads 2023 90 m
3   World Trade Center New Tower 2020 90 m
4   World Trade Center Extension 2020 80 m
5   HAUT 2019 73 m
6   Woontoren Lelylaan - 60 m
CTBUH Height Criteria
  Proposed
1   Rembrandt Tower 1995 150 m
2   Mondriaan Toren 2002 123 m
3   Maritim Congress Hotel 2020 114 m
4   Amsterdam Symphony I 2009 105 m
5   Amsterdam Symphony II 2009 105 m
6   World Trade Center Tower H 2004 105 m
7   ABN AMRO World HQ 1999 105 m
8   Overhoeks Residential Tower 2020 104 m
9   Amstel Tower 2018 100 m
10   Ito-toren 2005 100 m
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CTBUH Height Criteria
  Completed   Arch. Topped Out   Under Constr.

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CTBUH Initiatives

Tall Timber: A Global Audit
26 Jun 2017 – CTBUH Research

1995 Amsterdam 5th World Congress: Habitat and the High-Rise
14-19 May 1995 – Conference

Global News

Tall Buildings Ring Amsterdam to Preserve City Charm
26 Feb 2014 – Construction of tall buildings is discouraged in…

Videos

What’s Next?: How Do We Make Vertical Urban Design?
18 Oct 2016 – Winy Maas, MVRDV

Challenges and Benefits of Integrating Public Space into Tall Buildings
26 Oct 2015 – Rafael Viñoly, Rafael Viñoly Architects

Research Papers

Tall Buildings and Polycentricity
17 Oct 2016 – Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism

What’s Next?: How Do We Make Vertical Urban Design?
17 Oct 2016 – Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism

So You Want a Tall Building?
May 2011 – CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue II

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Tall Buildings and Polycentricity
17 Oct 2016 – Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism; Greg Yager, Carolien Gehrels & Maren Striker, Arcadis / CallisonRTKL
Dwindling land reserves, water and food shortages, climate change, diminishing air quality, environmental degradation – these are all among the intractable challenges we…
What’s Next?: How Do We Make Vertical Urban Design?
17 Oct 2016 – Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism; Winy Mass, MVRDV
It seems sometimes as if the further away from the ground we rise, the more architectonic and less urban our buildings become. Skyscrapers have always been about power,…
So You Want a Tall Building?
May 2011 – CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue II; John Worthington, DEGW
Having devised tall building strategies for Rotterdam, Dublin and London, he is the kind of guy who is called in as cities start to think about adding tall buildings. As…
Amsterdam’s Zuidas: A New Urban Landscape
Oct 2005 – CTBUH 2005 7th World Congress, New York; Pi di Bruijn, de Architekten Cie
Globalization and rising mobility are causing significant changes of emphasis in the Dutch urban landscape. The individual cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and…

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