Emporis was a real estate

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company with headquarters in

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, Germany. The company collected data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which were published in an online database from 2000 to September 2022. Emporis was acquired by

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in October 2020. On 12 September 2022, the managing director of CoStar Europe posted a letter on Emporis.com, informing its community members that the Emporis database and community platform would be shut down effective 13 September 2022. Emporis offered a variety of information on its public database, Emporis.com. Emporis was frequently cited by various media sources as an authority on building data.
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s, which it defined as buildings "between 35 and 100 metres" tall and "at least 100 metres tall", respectively. Emporis used the point where the building touches the ground to determine height. The database had expanded to include low-rise buildings and other structures. It used a point system to rank skylines.

History

Michael Wutzke started a website about skyscrapers in Frankfurt in 1996. In 2000 he started skyscrapers.com, which was folded into Emporis in 2003. In 2005 Emporis formed a partnership with the

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(CTBUH), under which Emporis served as the official CTBUH high-rise buildings database until the launch of The Skyscraper Center in 2011. In 2007, venture capital firm Neuhaus Partners and KfW Bankengruppe invested several million euro in the company. Effective 1 January 2009, the company moved its headquarters from

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to Frankfurt. In 2011, the company moved from Frankfurt to Hamburg. On 26 October 2020, CoStar Group, Inc., based in

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, completed its acquisition of Emporis GmbH. CoStar Group added Emporis to its portfolio of brands. The other brands included

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, Apartments.com, Apartment Finder, Belbex, amongst several others. The merger of Emporis GmbH into CoStar Group subsidiary STR, Inc's German division, STR Germany GmbH, was finalized on 27 January 2021, with Emporis GmbH's removal from the Common Register Portal of the German Federal States () On 14 September 2022, the entirety of the Emporis website's original content, including the building database, articles and data regarding

Emporis Skyscraper Award The Emporis Skyscraper Award was an award for architectural excellence regarding the design of buildings and their functionality. The award was presented annually by Emporis, a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. ...

recipients, and corporate information, was removed. In 2023, former editors of the Emporis website created a new website called SKYDB, a website that acts with a similar purpose.

Emporis Skyscraper Award

In 2000, a group of Emporis senior editors began presenting the

. Eligible buildings are selected from a list of all buildings in the world at least 100 meters tall which were completed that year.

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History

Emporis Skyscraper Award

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