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  Starts 09/30/2017ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCE9.0 years agoEstimated: SimpsonHaugh's^[2] project data gives completion as September 2017 (Buro Happold^[3] gives only the year), and no day is published, so the month's last day stands in.

  Circus West Village, the first completed phase of London's Battersea Power Station regeneration designed by SimpsonHaugh and built by Carillion, wrapped up as the scheme's opening residential and retail quarter.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  London's Docklands Light Railway Opens

  Poplar, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 08/31/1987CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE39.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "opened on 31 August 1987 with 11 trains servicing 15 stations".

  The driverless Docklands Light Railway opens to passengers, giving London's redeveloping docklands a low-cost automated metro built largely on disused rail viaducts.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Star Brisbane Opens at Queen's Wharf

  Queens Wharf Road, Brisbane City, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  

  Starts 08/29/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Star Grand Hotel, the new Star Brisbane casino... opened on 29 August 2024".

  The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.

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• Architecture09/22/2026@BuildDesk

  The London Museum Opens in Smithfield's General Market

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  Starts 11/28/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEin 66 daysThe museum's own site announces "Opening 28 Nov 2026" in its header and beside its Smithfield address, so the day is the institution's own.^[1]

  London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Mumbai Coastal Road Phase One Opens

  Marine Drive, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  

  Starts 03/11/2024CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE2.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "inaugurated on 11 March 2024".

  Mumbai opened the first phase of its Coastal Road, an eight-lane highway built on reclaimed land and sea-facing tunnels along the Arabian Sea.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Elizabeth Line's Tottenham Court Road Station Opens

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  Starts 05/24/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.3 years agoConfirmed against contemporary reporting on the central section's opening. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Elizabeth line opened on Tuesday 24 May 2022".

  London's £18.9BN Elizabeth Line opens through central London, bringing its new Tottenham Court Road station into service after years of Crossrail tunnelling and delay.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Silvertown Tunnel Opens Under the Thames

  Silvertown, London Borough of Newham, London, United KingdomTransport for London

  

  Starts 04/07/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Silvertown Tunnel will open on 7 April 2025, as confirmed by TfL^[2]."

  Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

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• Property09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Earls Court Redevelopment Starts on Site

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  Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysThe developer's announcement says only that "early construction work is expected to begin in 2026", a year rather than a date.^[1]

  The 44-acre former exhibition site won consent from Hammersmith & Fulham on 26 November 2025 and Kensington & Chelsea on 16 December 2025, a decade after the exhibition halls came down. Phase one of the GBP 10bn masterplan covers the first 1,300 homes, offices, a cultural venue and a 4.5-acre park, with the whole site due to be finished by 2043.

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  Apple Planning New UK Headquarters in London's Historic Battersea Power Station

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  Starts 01/01/2021CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoHappened as dated, per macrumors.com^[1]: "…rs of being abandoned, with a predicted opening date for Apple's offices expected sometime in 2021.…"

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  Olympia Opens to the Public After Its Kensington Rebuild

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  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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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  London's Thames Tideway 'Super Sewer' Officially Opens

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  Starts 05/07/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway^[3] Tunnel on May 7, 2025."

  King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Transforming London’s Broadgate: 100 Liverpool Street

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  Starts 09/01/2020CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE6.1 years agoMultiple independent sources (Hopkins^[2] Architects’ own project page and New London Architecture) give the completion as September 2020, after this 2019 video was filmed mid-construction. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "an outstanding new benchmark for low-carbon commercial office redevelopment".

  British Land completed a stripped-back rebuild of an aging 1980s Broadgate office block into 100 Liverpool Street, a low-carbon commercial tower beside Liverpool Street station.

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