Structurae is an online

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containing pictures and information about structural and

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works, and their associated

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, and builders.

Overview

Structurae was founded in 1998 by Nicolas Janberg, who had studied civil engineering at

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. In March 2012, Structurae was acquired by , a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., with Janberg joining the company as Structurae's editor-in-chief. At that time, the website received more than one million pageviews per month, and was available in English, French and German. In 2015, Janberg bought the site back to operate it as a freelancer again.

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* 1998 establishments in Germany Architecture websites German websites Architecture databases Online databases Databases in Germany Internet properties established in 1998 {{Database-stub