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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Construction Begins on The Delmore, Surfside Collapse Site

  8777 Collins Avenue, Surfside, Florida, United StatesDAMAC International

  

  Starts 02/26/2025CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: DAMAC International "unveils The Delmore... and commences construction" at the Surfside site.

  DAMAC International broke ground on The Delmore, a Zaha Hadid Architects-designed condo tower replacing the collapsed Champlain Towers South, with far fewer, far pricier units than before.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  BQE Rebuild Pushed Back to a 2030 Start

  Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, USA

  

  Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED70% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsStreetsblog's^[3] report of 24 August 2026 on the new mayoral plan - 'Construction will start in 2030, wrap up in 2040', a 10-year $4 billion rebuild - is newer than the NYC^[2] DOT project page's 2029 start, which is where the pin's earlier date came from. No day is given, so it is dated to the last day of 2030.

  New York's plan to rebuild the crumbling triple-cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway now targets a 2030 construction start after yet another mayoral reset.

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• Property09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  One Wall Street Completes Largest NYC Office-to-Apartment Conversion

  1 Wall Street, Financial District, Manhattan, New York, United StatesMacklowe Properties

  

  Starts 03/06/2023CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the building obtained its certificate of temporary occupancy, and the first residents were scheduled to move in the following week."

  Macklowe Properties finished converting the Art Deco One Wall Street office tower into 566 apartments, the largest office-to-residential conversion completed in New York City.

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• Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  400 Lake Shore Drive's North Tower Rises From Chicago's Old Spire Hole

  400 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, ILRelated Midwest

  

  Starts 03/31/2027ESTIMATED64% CONFIDENCEin 189 daysGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "Openings for the tower and park are slated for 2027."

  Related Midwest's 72-story North Tower, built inside the abandoned Chicago Spire foundation pit, is slated to open along the city's lakefront in 2027.

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• Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Hagia Sophia's Dome Restoration

  Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey

  

  Starts 04/14/2025CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: dome restoration was "scheduled to commence on April 14, 2025"; no completion date has been set for the wider 50-year reinforcement plan.

  Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  City of Paris Inaugurates La Canopée at Les Halles

  Forum des Halles, 101 Porte Berger, 75001 Paris, FranceCity of Paris

  

  Starts 04/05/2016CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE10.5 years agoFrench outlets Batiactu^[3] and Ingélux, and Wikipedia's^[2] French edition, date the Canopée's public inauguration to April 5, 2016.

  Paris unveiled La Canopée, a sweeping glass-and-steel roof capping the decade-long, roughly 800 million euro renovation of the Forum des Halles shopping and transit hub. Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the inauguration of the structure designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  One Times Square $500M Redevelopment Completes

  One Times Square, Manhattan, New York, United StatesJamestown

  

  Starts 01/01/2026CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE265 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the renovation was finished by January 2026."

  Jamestown's $500 million overhaul of the long-vacant One Times Square, home of the New Year's Eve ball drop, wrapped up with a new glass facade, museum and observation deck.

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• Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Citicorp Center's Secret Structural Fix Wraps Up

  601 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NYCiticorp

  

  Starts 10/31/1978ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCE47.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Repairs were completed in October 1978."

  Engineers quietly finished weeks of overnight welding that fixed a hidden wind-bracing flaw in Manhattan's Citicorp Center, averting a possible collapse.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Habitat 67 Opens at Montreal's Expo 67

  Habitat 67, 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  

  Starts 04/28/1967CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE59.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Habitat '67 is an apartment house complex in Montréal that was designed by architect Moshe Safdie and completed in 1967."

  Moshe Safdie's modular housing experiment, conceived as his student thesis, opened to the public as a pavilion of Montreal's 1967 World's Fair.

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• Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Co-Owners Scrap the €800M Tour Montparnasse Overhaul

  Tour Montparnasse, Paris, France

  

  Starts 07/21/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE64 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "co-owners of the tower voted to scrap the ambitious transformation" at a 21 July 2026 general assembly.

  Ten years after Paris approved Nouvelle AOM's full glass-facade transformation of the Tour Montparnasse, the tower's co-owners voted to abandon that plan in favour of a smaller, cheaper intervention.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  One Thousand Museum Completes in Miami

  One Thousand Museum, 1000 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, 33132, United StatesZaha Hadid Architects

  

  Starts 06/28/2019CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the tower has received its TCO (temporary certificate of occupancy), meaning that it is one step closer to officially welcoming residents."

  Zaha Hadid Architects' exoskeleton-clad One Thousand Museum tower finished construction on Miami's Biscayne Boulevard, one of the late architect's last works.

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• Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  American Copper Buildings Complete on Manhattan's East River

  Kips Bay, Manhattan, New York, NYJDS Development Group

  

  Starts 12/31/2018ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCE7.7 years agoDated to the end of 2018 because the sources give only a period: the east tower opened "late 2018", completing the pair (the west tower opened in April 2017). The skybridge itself was installed from January 2016.^[1]

  Developer JDS Development Group and architects SHoP completed the American Copper Buildings on Manhattan's East River in 2018, two leaning towers joined by a three-storey glass skybridge.

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