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  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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  How Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao Changed Architecture Forever

  Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Bizkaia, SpainGuggenheim Museum Bilbao

  

  Starts 10/18/1997CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE28.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the Guggenheim^[3] Museum Bilbao was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain."

  Frank Gehry's titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in October 1997, reviving a struggling industrial city and popularizing the aircraft-design software that made its curved form buildable.

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  Real Madrid's Rebuilt Bernabéu Finally Wraps Up

  Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, SpainReal Madrid

  

  Starts 12/31/2024DELAYED60% CONFIDENCE1.7 years agoThe reopening slipped past several earlier target dates before the stadium was substantially finished going into the 2024/25 season. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "close to €1.347 billion" had been spent by mid-2025 on the finishing work.

  Real Madrid's four-year overhaul of the Santiago Bernabéu — a new steel facade, retractable roof and a fully removable pitch — ran years past its original target before wrapping up.

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  The Pergamonmuseum's North Wing Reopens With the Pergamon Altar

  Am Kupfergraben 5, Spandauer Vorstadt, Mitte, Berlin 10117, GermanyStaatliche Museen zu Berlin

  

  Starts 06/04/2027CONFIRMED93% CONFIDENCEin 254 daysThe Staatliche Museen zu Berlin announced the date itself - "Opening on June 4th 2027" - and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz^[2] put out a matching press release on 4 May 2026.

  Berlin's Pergamonmuseum comes back in stages, and the first of them lands on 4 June 2027: the North Wing and the northern central building reopen, putting the Pergamon Altar back on public view and giving the Museum für Islamische Kunst two full floors. The museum has been under renovation since 2013 as part of the Museumsinsel master plan, and the South Wing stays shut after this - it is not expected back until around 2037.

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  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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  Chicago's Century and Consumers Buildings Saved From Demolition

  220 South State Street, Loop, Chicago, Illinois, United StatesGeneral Services Administration

  

  Starts 08/02/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: the GSA released its final environmental review, "ultimately choosing to reuse the vacant buildings rather than demolish them," reported August 2, 2024.

  The US General Services Administration reversed course on a $52M congressional earmark to demolish two historic Chicago Loop skyscrapers, opting to reuse them instead after a sustained preservation campaign.

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  LACMA Opens Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries

  5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United StatesLos Angeles County Museum of Art

  

  Starts 04/19/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE157 days agoLACMA's^[1] own press release names the day: the David Geffen Galleries "open April 19". The museum is announcing its own building, so the date needs no inference.

  LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.

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  The Washington Monument Opens to the Public

  Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., United StatesUnited States Army Corps of Engineers

  

  Starts 10/09/1888CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE138.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "opened to the public in Washington, D.C., on this day in history, Oct. 9, 1888".

  After decades of stalled funding and a visible change in stone partway up its shaft, the Washington Monument finally opened its doors to visitors in 1888.

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  Afsluitdijk's Storm-Proofing Upgrade Wraps Up in the Netherlands

  Breezanddijk, Afsluitdijk, NetherlandsLevvel

  

  Starts 06/01/2023ESTIMATED64% CONFIDENCE3.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "completed the work in 2023."

  The Levvel consortium finished reinforcing the 32-kilometre Afsluitdijk sea wall with tens of thousands of custom concrete blocks so it can withstand a one-in-10,000-year storm.

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  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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  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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  Louvre Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island

  Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  

  Starts 11/11/2017CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Friday marks five years since Louvre^[2] Abu Dhabi welcomed the first members of the public" (published 11 Nov 2022).

  Jean Nouvel's dome-topped museum, the first Louvre outpost outside France, opens to the public five years behind its original schedule.

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