Achmeatoren

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Achmeatoren (Dutch for Achmea Tower) is an office building in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands. The Achmeatoren was opened in 2002. and is 115 meters (377 ft) tall, having 26 floors. It is the 23rd tallest building in the Netherlands, and the tallest in the northern part of the country—visible from a large part of Friesland in clear weather. The building was commissioned by Achmea and designed by renowned Dutch architects Abe Bonnema and Jan van der Leij from Bonnema Architects in Hardegarijp. Since its completion the building has lost its granite plates three times but no one has ever been injured. The slender tower dominates the skyline of Leeuwarden and works in the horizontal Frisian landscape as a striking beacon that is visible from a great distance. The building consists of two volumes of different heights that are, as it were, pushed into each other. The highest part is covered with black granite, the lower with grey granite. Both building parts are placed on high legs over a steel and glass substructure. An arcade in this substructure accompanies the pedestrian route between station and city center. At the top of the tower there is a semi-public space with panoramic views of the city and countryside. Due to the interplay of a fickle office market, flexible labor and advancing automation, not all office space in the Achmeatoren is in continuous use.