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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Shanghai Grand Opera House Opens on the Huangpu River

  Expo Culture Park, Houtan, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Grand Theatre Arts Centre

  

  Starts 10/17/2026SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 24 daysPudong's^[1] English government news page says the "Shanghai Grand Opera House will open on Oct 17 on the east bank of the Huangpu River", a fixed announced date.

  The 146,000-square-metre building in Expo Culture Park, designed by ECADI with Snohetta as a spiralling Chinese folding fan, holds the 2,000-seat Harmony Hall, the 1,200-seat Soar Theatre and the 1,000-seat Open Stage, 4,200 seats in all. The opening season runs 47 productions and 82 performances through 20 February 2027.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Sydney Opera House Officially Opens

  Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW, Australia

  

  Starts 10/20/1973CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE52.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II."

  Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Sydney Opera House, capping fourteen years of construction that ran a decade late and far over its original budget.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Odette Opens Inside the National Gallery Singapore

  Odette1 Saint Andrew's Road, Civic District, Downtown Core, Singapore

  Starts 12/31/2015ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCE10.7 years agoWikipedia^[1] gives the year only - "Founded in 2015 by chef Julien Royer" - with no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.

  Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 in the National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall converted into a museum, and named it after his grandmother. It became the highest-ranked restaurant in Singapore on the Asia's 50 Best list and one of the city's three-star addresses, cooking a French menu built around named producers.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Dubai Metro's Blue Line Opens on the Metro's 20th Anniversary

  Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesRoads and Transport Authority

  

  Starts 09/09/2029SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 3.0 yearsThe report states the line "is expected to start operations on 9-9-2029, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced", a fixed announced day chosen to echo the metro's own 9-9-2009 opening.^[1]

  The 30 km Blue Line adds 14 stations across Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, International City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Mirdif and Al Warqa, with 15.5 km of underground track and 14.5 km elevated. The RTA awarded the construction contract to a consortium of MAPA, LIMAK and CRRC in December 2024 and expects 28 trains to carry 200,000 riders a day by 2030, rising to 320,000 by 2040.

  AED 20.5B

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Etihad Rail Launches First UAE Passenger Trains

  Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesEtihad Rail

  

  Starts 06/30/2026CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE85 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the first phase of its passenger train services will begin on June 30".

  Etihad Rail began passenger service in the UAE, launching an introductory Abu Dhabi-to-Fujairah route ahead of its full national network opening.

  $11B

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Taipei Performing Arts Center Officially Opens

  Taipei Performing Arts Center, Shilin District, Taipei, TaiwanOffice for Metropolitan Architecture

  

  Starts 07/02/2022CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE4.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The center had a trial opening in March-May 2022 before it officially opened on 2 July 2022."

  OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center, a sphere-studded venue perched above the Shilin Night Market, officially opened after a decade of delayed construction.

  NT$6.8B

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• Architecture09/22/2026@BuildDesk

  Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island

  Solomon R. Guggenheim FoundationCulture District, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

  Starts 12/11/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysAbu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism named 11 December 2026 in a joint announcement with the Guggenheim^[1] Foundation in late July 2026; the foundation's own press release carries the date.

  Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Al Maktoum International Airport Phase 1

  Dubai World Central, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDubai Airports

  

  Starts 12/31/2032SCHEDULED78% CONFIDENCEin 6.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per Dubai's Crown Prince and the source^[1]: "Phase 1 scheduled to begin operations in 2032."

  The first phase of Dubai's US$35BN Al Maktoum International Airport expansion, ultimately sized to handle more than 260 million passengers a year and become the world's largest airport.

  $35B

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Punk Noir Opens in the Dallas Design District

  139, Turtle Creek Boulevard, Design District, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, 75207, United StatesPunk Noir

  

  Starts 06/02/2026CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE113 days agoTwo Dallas outlets give the same day. FSR magazine^[1] (18 May 2026) and CultureMap^[2] Dallas both put the opening on Tuesday 2 June 2026 at 139 Turtle Creek Blvd, and 2 June 2026 is indeed a Tuesday. The concept had been trailed since September 2025 as opening "in early 2026", so the June date is the firm one rather than the early estimate.

  A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.

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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Olympia Opens to the Public After Its Kensington Rebuild

  Olympia, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London, EnglandYoo Capital

  

  Starts 06/15/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE100 days agoOlympia's^[1] own press release, headed "The all-new Olympia opens", gives 15 June 2026 as the opening day of the transformed destination.

  The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Titusz Opens in Lawrenceville

  4129, Butler Street, Central Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 15206, United StatesTitusz

  

  Starts 04/30/2026ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE146 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as April 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Chef Csilla Thackray opens a bright Austro-Hungarian restaurant on Butler Street, named for her great-grandfather and inspired by her Hungarian grandmother.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Theatercaféen Opens Opposite the National Theatre

  Theatercaféen, Klingenberggata, Vika, Sentrum, Oslo 0161, NorwayTheatercaféen

  

  Starts 12/31/1900ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE125.7 years agoThe article states "Theatercaféen opened in 1900" without a month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]

  Theatercaféen opened in 1900 across the street from Oslo's National Theatre and became the room where Norwegian actors, writers and politicians ate after curtain - a Viennese-style café with a gallery, caricatures of its regulars on the walls and live music from a balcony.

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