Emporis Explained

Emporis
Type:Subsidiary
Location:Hamburg, Germany
Industry:Real estate
Products:Real estate information
Parent:CoStar Group[1]
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Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The company collected data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which were published in an online database from 2000 to September 2022.[2]

On 12 September 2022, the managing director of CoStar Europe posted a letter on Emporis.com, informing its community members of the decision which had been made to retire the Emporis community platform, effective 13 September 2022.[3]

Emporis offered a variety of information on its public database, Emporis.com.[4] Emporis was frequently cited by various media sources as an authority on building data.[5] [6]

Emporis originally focused exclusively on high-rise buildings and skyscrapers, which it defined as buildings "between 35 and 100 metres" tall and "at least 100 metres tall", respectively.[7] Emporis used the point where the building touches the ground to determine height.[8] The database had expanded to include low-rise buildings and other structures. It used a point system to rank skylines.[9]

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.[10]

In 2005 Emporis formed a partnership with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), under which Emporis served as the official CTBUH high-rise buildings database until the launch of The Skyscraper Center in 2011.[11]

In 2007 venture capital firm Neuhaus Partners and KfW Bankengruppe invested several million euro in the company.[12] Effective 1 January 2009, the company moved its headquarters from Darmstadt to Frankfurt. In 2011, the company moved from Frankfurt to Hamburg.

On 26 October 2020, CoStar Group, Inc., based in Washington, D.C., completed its acquisition of Emporis GmbH. CoStar Group added Emporis to its portfolio of brands. The other brands included LoopNet, Apartments.com, Apartment Finder, Belbex, amongst several others.[13]

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 (German: gemeinsame Registerportal der Länder) [14]

On 14 September 2022, the entirety of the Emporis website's original content, including the building database, articles and data regarding Emporis Skyscraper Award recipients, and corporate information, was removed.[15]

In 2023, former editors of the Emporis website created a new website called SKYDB, a website that acts with a similar purpose.[16]

Emporis Skyscraper Award

See main article: Emporis Skyscraper Award.

In 2000, a group of Emporis senior editors began presenting the Emporis Skyscraper Award. Eligible buildings are selected from a list of all buildings in the world at least 100 meters tall which were completed that year.[17]

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Bossi . Paolo . 9 November 2020 . CoStar Group's Acquisition Of Emporis GmbH . Global Legal Chronicle . 14 September 2022 . subscription.
    - Web site: S&P Capital IQ. S&P Global#S&P Global Market Intelligence. 27 October 2020. CoStar Group, Inc. acquired Emporis GmbH.. Market Screener . 14 September 2022.
  2. Web site: Emporis Factsheet. s3.amazonaws.com. 14 September 2022. 15 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220915011809/https://s3.amazonaws.com/emporis.downloads/Emporis_Factsheet.pdf. dead.
    - Book: Sargisson, Lucy. Fool's Gold?: Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century. 2012. Palgrave Macmillan. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire. 978-1-137-03107-5. 795687185. 10.1057/9781137031075. 2012022279. 37266903M. Emporis.com is described by Google as 'the first global provider of building data', 'the world's database for buildings'.. Google Books.
    - s.n.. Sine nomine. . 2027/uc1.32106017987782 . . 2009 . 46 . 10–12 . 1938 . . Middletown, Connecticut . 1943-5975 . 64009413 . 0009-4978 . 1554411.
    - Web site: Great Skyscraper Websites . Craven . Jackie . 29 January 2020 . ThoughtCo .
  3. Web site: Dear Emporis Community Members . 11 December 2005 . 14 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220914194940/http://www.emporis.com/.
  4. Web site: Emporis Company Profile . https://web.archive.org/web/20111102003140/http://www.emporis.com/corporate . dead . 2 November 2011 . Emporis . 30 March 2012.
  5. Web site: In the Press. https://web.archive.org/web/20121003075739/http://www.emporis.com/press. dead. 3 October 2012. Emporis. 30 March 2012.
    - Web site: Emporis Buildings Database Now Available. Galvin Library (Illinois Institute of Technology). 6 April 2007. 8 July 2019. Dedicated to documenting tall buildings, Emporis is the world's largest publicly available database on architectural and building data. News, photographs, renderings, and firm data are collected by over 700 editors for more than 50,000 cities worldwide. These experienced authors and correspondents report 24 hours a day on new projects and developments in architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate with a high regard for accurate and reliable information..
    - Book: Batty, Michael. The New Science of Cities. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2013. 10.7551/mitpress/9399.001.0001. j.ctt9qf7m6. 2013004383. 978-0-262-01952-1. 863047511. 28510800M . Google Books.
  6. Web site: Gold Coast's DBI Design wins worldwide skyscraper award for Etihad Towers . Architecture & Design . 8 January 2013 . Wheeldon, David . Emporis, a global provider of building information, is regarded as an international authority on high-rise building design. Nominees and winners are chosen by Emporis editors – architecture experts from around the world... . 16 August 2013 .
    - Web site: Great American Tower Recognized as a Top Skyscraper in the World. Western & Southern Financial Group. 7 December 2012. Every year since 2000, Emporis' expert international jury recognizes 10 skyscrapers completed in the previous calendar year. According to Emporis, a panel of architecture experts from all over the world judge nominated buildings based on aesthetic and functional design criteria and then rank them accordingly.. 16 August 2013. 15 August 2013. https://archive.today/20130815170404/http://www.westernsouthern.com/media/newsreleases/2012/nr_120712_GAT_Emporis_Award.asp. dead.
  7. Book: Günel . Mehmet Halis . Ilgin . Hüseyin Emre . Tall Buildings: Structural Systems and Aerodynamic Form . . Hoboken . 2014 . 10.4324/9781315776521 . 978-1-317-69073-3 . 2013043772 . 882771174 . 37966877M . Google Books.
    - Web site: Emporis Standards: high-rise building . https://web.archive.org/web/20120923051158/http://www.emporis.com/building/standards/high-rise-building . dead . 23 September 2012 . Emporis Standards . 30 March 2012.
    - Web site: Emporis Standards: skyscraper . https://web.archive.org/web/20120401211523/http://www.emporis.com/building/standards/skyscraper . dead . 1 April 2012 . Emporis Standards . 30 March 2012.
  8. Web site: The 10 Different Ways to Measure a Skyscraper's Height . 12 October 2017 . ArchDaily.
  9. Web site: The 25 best city skylines on the planet . Zeveloff . Julie . Grebey . James . 30 August 2018 . Insider . The international building database Emporis attempts to quantify skylines by looking at the number and height of buildings in the world's major cities. The result is an ever-changing ranking of the world's most impressive cityscapes. To rank skylines, Emporis looks at completed skyscrapers (40 floors or more) and high-rises (12 to 39 floors), and assigns each building a point value based on its floor count. Taller buildings receive significantly higher values. TV towers, masts, bridges, and other structures are excluded..
  10. Web site: Emporis Corporate - About Emporis . https://web.archive.org/web/20111102003140/http://www.emporis.com/corporate . dead . 2 November 2011 . Emporis GmbH . 30 March 2012.
  11. Web site: Web - Database Credits . . 8 December 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070203113906/http://www.ctbuh.org/htmlfiles/database/hrbd.html . 3 February 2007.
  12. Emporis Completes Multi-Million Euro Financing Round to Drive Growth . PR Newswire . 25 September 2007 . 21 February 2009 .
  13. Web site: Our Brands: Emporis. Costar Group . 14 September 2022. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20220915015629/https://www.costargroup.com/about-us/brands/emporis. 15 September 2022.
  14. Web site: STR Germany GmbH - Merger: Emporis GmbH . 21 January 2021 . North Data . 18 September 2022.
    - Web site: Emporis GmbH, Hamburg, Germany . North Data . 18 September 2022.
    - Web site: Entity Data: Hamburg District court Hamburg HRB 120132 – Emporis GmbH . Common Register Portal of the German federal states . 18 September 2022 . Date of removal: 27/01/2021..
  15. Web site: Emporis . 15 September 2022 . 13 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220913112104/https://www.emporis.com .
    - Web site: Emporis community platform has now been retired . 15 September 2022 . 15 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220915203625/https://www.emporis.com/ .
  16. Web site: SKYDB, September 26, 2023.
  17. Web site: Emporis Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20111106053318/http://www.emporis.com/awards . dead . 6 November 2011 . Emporis . 30 March 2012.

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