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Two more of the ten Common Central Secretariat blocks on Kartavya Path, along with the Seva Teerth complex, were inaugurated, taking to three the number of buildings in service in the Central Vista's replacement for Shastri, Nirman and Krishi Bhawan. The first three blocks, designed by HCP and built by Shapoorji Pallonji, cost 3,690 crore rupees and each spans about 150,000 sq m over seven floors and two basements.

Barcelona's basilica tops out its 172.5-metre central tower, making it the world's tallest church, timed for the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death. Estimated date.

The ground reopened with Mexico against Portugal after closing in May 2024 for a rebuild covering modern screens, new lighting and redeveloped press areas and entrances, leaving a capacity of about 90,000. It will host five 2026 World Cup matches, making it the only stadium to stage three tournaments.

Work started on the foundational infrastructure for a 65,000-seat domed stadium on the old RFK Stadium site in southeast Washington, with the full groundbreaking held back to early 2027 and opening expected in 2030. The Commanders are putting up $2.7 billion towards a project projected at $3.8 billion; the District is spending $500 million on infrastructure and will own the building.

Inter Miami played its first match at the 26,700-seat Nu Stadium, the centrepiece of the 131-acre Miami Freedom Park built on the former Melreese golf course beside Miami International Airport, drawing 2-2 with Austin FC. The club had played out of Fort Lauderdale since 2020 while the site was fought over and built.

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.

The final structural beam went in at the top of the 660-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, built on the former site of the Mirage's volcano and holding 675 of the resort's rooms. The $4 billion Hard Rock Las Vegas is a full rebuild of the Mirage, which closed on 17 July 2024, and is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2027.

Cosm opened a 70,000-square-foot, three-level venue built around an 87-foot 12K LED dome in Atlanta's Gulch, showing Game 4 of the NBA Finals on its first night. It is the first attraction finished inside Centennial Yards, the $5 billion, 50-acre redevelopment of the rail gulch between State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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.

The Obama Foundation's 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park, built around a 225-foot museum tower, took its first visitors on Juneteenth, the day after a dedication ceremony at John Lewis Plaza. At roughly $850 million it is the most expensive presidential library yet built; ground was broken in September 2021 after years of lawsuits over the Jackson Park site.

Harvard, Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston: two commercial laboratory buildings called OneMilestone, the 343-apartment Verra, the Atlas Hotel, Harvard's David Rubenstein Treehouse conference centre, 40,000 square feet of retail and more than two acres of public open space. It is the opening move on a 36-acre site, with a Phase B of labs, offices and housing still to be permitted.

Crews finished installing a base-isolation system beneath the 19th-century Salt Lake Temple as part of an estimated $2.4 billion project to let the building float free of the ground during a major earthquake.

Structural steel columns buckled at 235 East 42nd Street, the former Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan being converted into roughly 1,600 apartments, forcing an evacuation and emergency stabilisation.

After 14 years of stalled foundations, construction officially restarted on 2 World Trade Center with a groundbreaking ceremony, anchored by American Express as its future headquarters tenant.

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.

The 39-storey, 180-metre tower beside Central Station reached its full height at a topping-out ceremony, making it the world's tallest hybrid timber and steel building. Co-owned by Atlassian and the property group Dexus, it anchors Sydney's Tech Central precinct and is expected to be completed in 2027.

Melbourne's planned 366-metre STH BNK by Beulah tower, once set to be Australia's tallest building and a supertall vertical garden, collapsed after its developer defaulted on financing.

The Buffalo Bills' roughly $2.1 billion open-air replacement for Highmark Stadium hosted its first game across the road from the team's old venue in Orchard Park, New York.

Berlin's abandoned, billion-mark ICC convention centre, nicknamed the 'spaceship', went out to tender for a 99-year ground lease, and the Land Berlin has now tied itself to one bidder: the Projektpartnerschaft Quartier ICC, which has until 30 June 2027 to negotiate the lease and a reuse plan built around events and the creative industries.

The 74-storey, 1,022-foot tower above Waller Creek opens in stages, starting with its 251-room 1 Hotel, and stacks 703,000 square feet of offices and 352 flats above it. At full height it passes Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower, which had been the tallest building in Texas since 1981, by 23 feet.

Georgia Tech cut the ribbon on Tech Square Phase 3, a 416,500-square-foot complex of the 18-storey George Tower for the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the 14-storey Scheller Tower for the business school, joined by a shared lift core. Its first three floors had opened to the campus in January 2026.

Pinnacle SkyTower, a 106-storey, 352m tower on Toronto's waterfront, becomes Canada's tallest building, taking the title from One Bloor West.

George Lucas's museum of narrative art opens to the public on 22 September 2026 in Exposition Park, after a build that ran years past its first target date. It is given over to storytelling as art - illustration, comics, film and the painted image side by side - rather than to a single medium, and it lands beside the Natural History Museum and the California Science Center in the city's museum quarter.

The new North Concourse at George Bush Intercontinental replaces the 1969-era flight stations with about 765,000 square feet on three levels, 22 gates for United and a 54,000-square-foot United Club, the largest in the airline's network. It is the centrepiece of the $2.5 billion Terminal B Transformation, which closed the old Terminal B lobby in January 2025.

The rephased Inglewood Transit Connector begins with three mobility hubs holding more than 1,000 parking stalls, event-day bus lanes, a rebuilt Market Street and a pedestrian bridge over Florence Avenue to the Metro K Line station, all due by 2028. The automated people mover it grew out of is deferred, with the right-of-way preserved at Market and Manchester.

The 16.9 sq km park is being laid out over the grounds of Riyadh's former airport, with an Art Park opening first and a Royal Arts Complex of thirteen structures, designed by the late Ricardo Bofill, arranged along a 1.5 km central boulevard. Omrania leads the design with Henning Larsen on the masterplan, and the park carries an estimated cost of SAR 72 billion.

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.

The $915 million museum on the bank of the Parramatta River opens with five exhibitions and more than 3,000 objects, and is the largest museum in New South Wales. Most of its exhibitions are free, and all are free for visitors under 16.

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.

The first large public piece of Amtrak's phased rebuild of the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station: a restored concourse of shops and restaurants beneath the 1933 building, part of a redevelopment of nearly 500,000 square feet running to 2028.

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences Miami - nine stacked and cantilevered glass cubes holding nearly 100 storeys of condominiums and a 205-room hotel - is expected to reach its full 1,049 feet, making it the tallest building in Florida and the southern United States. Its superstructure passed level 85 and started the ninth and final cube in August 2026; delivery of the finished tower is set for 2028.

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.

Five Points Development's slender 262 Fifth Avenue condo tower topped out in Manhattan's NoMad district in 2024 and is on track to open in 2026, drawing criticism for blocking classic views of the nearby Empire State Building.

The 53-storey DC Tower 2 is rising beside its twin in Donau City using a jump-form climbing system, on track to finish out the district by the end of 2026.

The Betty Knoebel Arena, given a ceremonial groundbreaking in September 2026, is the centrepiece of a new Equestrian Center on the National Western Center campus in north Denver, paid for by the Knoebel family and the Knoebel Foundation. Plans put a 4,000-seat arena alongside a climate-controlled horse barn with close to 600 stalls.

Herzog & de Meuron's 180-metre glass wedge holds 44 floors of offices, a hotel and a restaurant on the edge of the Parc des Expositions, and is the first high-rise built inside Paris in about 40 years. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield started work at the end of 2021 and is fitting out the EUR 700 million tower for its final handover.

A new $2.1 billion enclosed Nissan Stadium is scheduled to hand over to the Tennessee Titans in February 2027, funded largely by public money in a bid to eventually host a Super Bowl.

The $815 million AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, a seven-storey 575,000-square-foot building north of 57th Street in Hyde Park, is Illinois' first freestanding cancer centre, with 80 inpatient beds, 90 outpatient exam rooms and dedicated imaging, infusion and clinical trial space. It pulls together cancer services currently spread across at least five buildings on the campus.

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.

The 2027 International Architecture Exhibition runs 8 May to 21 November in Venice, curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu under the theme 'Do Architecture'.

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.

Major construction begins on the Hillcrest Medical Center Renewal Project, replacing the hospital built as the county hospital in 1963 with about 800,000 square feet holding roughly 300 licensed beds and a Level One trauma centre. The wider Hillcrest redevelopment is a ten-year, $2.5-3 billion programme finishing in 2033.

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.

Shanghai's second-largest station after Hongqiao is being built in the bonded area beside Pudong International Airport, its high-speed station building given 15 platforms and 30 tracks. Passengers will walk roughly 250 metres between the trains and the airport.

Turner broke ground on 5 September 2024 on the $2.6 billion modernization of SFO's Terminal 3: a 200,000-square-foot expansion, 650,000 square feet of renovation and a new six-story building holding airline lounges and operational offices. The eastern addition follows in 2029.

The University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing Jiaotong University, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Beijing Forestry University began building Xiong'an campuses in November 2023 under a 'one university, two campuses' model that keeps their Beijing sites and shares staff, libraries and labs. Fifteen Beijing universities are to have campuses there, all of them finished by 2030.

Seattle Public Schools, the City of Seattle and the Kraken-backed One Roof Partnership are replacing the 1947 stadium with a rebuilt open-air venue for school sport, concerts and community events, keeping and reframing the Memorial Wall that honours 762 local students and alumni killed in the Second World War. It is funded with $110 million of public money plus roughly $30 million raised privately.

Monumental Sports & Entertainment's rebuild of the Capitals' and Wizards' downtown arena reaches the end of six construction phases that began in December 2024 and were staged around live events, including a new 'Visibowl' seating bowl, new premium clubs and a new cardholder entrance opening in autumn 2027.