FiftyTwoDegrees is an
high-rise building in
Nijmegen
Nijmegen ( , ; Nijmeegs: ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the ...
,
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
.
It is from a special design. Its lower floors are built as an
inclined tower
An inclined tower is a tower that was intentionally built at an Inclined plane, incline. Towers are built with an incline in order to support the weight of another structure, such as the Montreal Tower. Some towers are built with an incline due to ...
, while its upper sections are from conventional design.
FiftyTwoDegrees was completed in 2007.
See also
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Mecanoo
Mecanoo is an architecture firm based in Delft, Netherlands. Mecanoo was founded in 1984 by Francine Houben, Henk Döll, Roelf Steenhuis, Erick van Egeraat and Chris de Weijer.
Foundation
Houben, Döll and Steenhuis won a competition to de ...
External links
* http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b33936
* https://web.archive.org/web/20071009105433/http://www.fiftytwodegrees.com/ftd/
Buildings and structures in Nijmegen
Towers in Gelderland
Skyscraper office buildings in the Netherlands
Office buildings completed in 2007
2007 establishments in the Netherlands
21st-century architecture in the Netherlands
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