Hoftoren
Sign in to saveThe Hoftoren (; "Court Tower"), nicknamed (; "The Fountain Pen"), is a 29-storey, building in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the third-tallest building in the city, and the eighth-tallest in the country. The Hoftoren was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) in New York City, and built by Heijmans Bouw BV, and is home to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (the latter having taken up temporary residence in the Hoftoren in 2012) of the Netherlands.
Key facts
- Building.name
- Hoftoren
- Building.image
- Hoftoren 1.jpg
- Building.alternate_names
- De Vulpen
- Building.location
- Rijnstraat 50The Hague, Netherlands
- Building.completion_date
- 1999 - 2003
- Building.status
- Complete
- Building.building_type
- Government offices
- Building.architectural_style
- Modernism
- Building.floor_count
- 302 below ground
- Building.architect
- Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
- Building.structural_engineer
- Deerns Raadgevende IngenieursScheldebouw
- Building.main_contractor
- Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Hoftoren 1.jpg
- Height
- 142
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- Commons category
- Hoftoren
- floors above ground
- 30
- inception
- 2003-00-00
- number of elevators
- 14
- street address
- Rijnstraat 50, 2515XP 's-Gravenhage
- nickname
- de vulpen
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The Hoftoren (; "Court Tower"), nicknamed (; "The Fountain Pen"), is a 29-storey, building in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the third-tallest building in the city, and the eighth-tallest in the country. The Hoftoren was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) in New York City, and built by Heijmans Bouw BV, and is home to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (the latter having taken up temporary residence in the Hoftoren in 2012) of the Netherlands.
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