Harbin Opera House Completes on the Songhua River

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  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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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  TBM Wanda Completes Drilling of the Albvorland Tunnel

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  Starts 10/29/2019CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE6.9 years agoImplenia's^[4] own project news release dates the southern tube breakthrough to 29 October 2019.

  Tunnel boring machine Wanda finished excavating the southern tube of the Albvorland Tunnel, the last major breakthrough on Deutsche Bahn's Stuttgart-Ulm high-speed line. The 8-kilometer twin-tube tunnel near Wendlingen am Neckar was built by Implenia and cuts travel time between Stuttgart and Ulm to roughly 30 minutes.

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• Science09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hyper-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory Cavern Completed

  Kamioka, Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

  

  Starts 07/31/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the University of Tokyo completed excavation of the colossal cavern that will house the main detector volume of Hyper-Kamiokande" on July 31, 2025.

  Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.

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  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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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland Opens in a Flooded Quarry

  5188 Chenhua Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, ChinaIHG Hotels & Resorts

  

  Starts 11/15/2018CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE7.9 years agoHappened as dated: IHG's own release announcing 'the grand opening of InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland' is dated 15 November 2018, and ArchDaily's project entry gives 'Opened: 15th November 2018'. Wikipedia's^[2] 20 November 2018 start of operations is the outlier.

  IHG opened the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, an 18-storey hotel built into the walls of a disused quarry with two underwater floors set against a lit aquarium.

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  Dubai Opera Opens in Downtown Dubai

  Downtown Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  

  Starts 08/31/2016CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE10.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "It opened on 31 August 2016 with a performance by Plácido Domingo."

  Dubai Opera, a 2,000-seat performing arts venue shaped like a dhow, opened in the city's Opera District with a Plácido Domingo gala.

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• Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Goldin Finance 117 Targeted to Finally Complete in Tianjin

  Goldin Finance 117, Xiqing District, Tianjin, China

  

  Starts 06/30/2027ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCEin 280 daysGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "In April 2025, it was announced that construction would resume and be completed in 2027."

  After a decade standing unfinished as the world's tallest abandoned building, Tianjin's 597-metre Goldin Finance 117 resumed construction under a state-led rescue and is targeted to complete in 2027.

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• Property09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  First Buildings Open at Tokyo's Tsukiji Redevelopment Site

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  Starts 04/01/2029ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.5 yearsMitsui Fudosan's^[1] release gives "Scheduled opening: First half of 2030s or later (advance opening of facility in fiscal 2029)", so the pin sits on 1 April 2029, the first day of that fiscal year.

  Mitsui Fudosan's consortium is rebuilding the 190,000 sq m former Tsukiji fish market site in Chuo City as nine buildings totalling about 1,170,000 sq m, including an all-weather multifunctional venue for roughly 50,000 people, a theatre hall, a culinary centre and a waterbus terminal. The whole scheme is costed at about 900 billion yen.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Opens as the World's Longest Sea Crossing

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  Starts 10/24/2018CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE7.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "On 24 October 2018 the HZMB was opened to the public after its inauguration a day earlier."

  The 55km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge opened to traffic on 24 October 2018, linking the three Pearl River Delta cities with cable-stayed bridges, artificial islands and an undersea tunnel.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Consorzio Venezia Nuova Installs the Last of MOSE's 78 Flood Gates

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  Starts 01/30/2019CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE7.6 years agoWikipedia's^[4] MOSE article states the last of the 78 gates was put in place on 30 January 2019.

  The consortium building Venice's MOSE flood-defence system put the last of its 78 mobile barrier gates into place across the lagoon's three inlets, nearly sixteen years after groundbreaking, though the system as a whole was still years from completion. Heavy-lift specialist Fagioli spent years floating and positioning the multi-tonne steel gates; individual gates were first raised in October 2013, and the first full test of all 78 followed on 10 July 2020.

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  Danjiang Bridge Opens in Taiwan

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  Starts 05/12/2026SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCE134 days agoGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: the bridge "is set to open on 12 May 2026".

  Zaha Hadid Architects' single-mast Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River, now the world's longest single-mast cable-stayed bridge, is set to open to traffic in Taipei.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Kronenhalle Opens in Zurich

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  Starts 12/31/1924ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE101.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - established 1924 - so the pin takes that year's last day.^[1]

  Hulda Zumsteg took over the Kronenhalle in 1924 and ran it for half a century, taking paintings in part payment and hanging them where the diners sat - so the walls now carry Chagall, Miró, Picasso and Matisse above the tables where Joyce and Giacometti ate.

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