Zaha Hadid's Port House Opens Above Antwerp's Old Fire Station · Chronopin

Zaha Hadid's Port House Opens Above Antwerp's Old Fire Station · Chronopin

Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Café Gerbeaud Opens on Vörösmarty Square
Gerbeaud Confectionary, 7-8, Vörösmarty square, Lipótváros, 5th district, Budapest, Central Hungary, 1051, HungaryCafé Gerbeaud
Starts 12/31/1858ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE167.7 years agoThe article states it was "opened in 1858" and gives no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]
The coffeehouse on Vörösmarty tér opened in 1858 and grew into one of the largest and grandest in Europe, its rooms panelled and chandeliered on a scale that belongs to the Habsburg city. It gave its name to the Gerbeaud slice and remains the fixture by which Budapest's café tradition is measured.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Zaha Hadid's Dongdaemun Design Plaza Opens in Seoul
Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Jung District, Seoul, South KoreaZaha Hadid Architects
Starts 03/21/2014CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE12.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "it was officially inaugurated on 21 March 2014."
Zaha Hadid Architects' fluid, BIM-engineered Dongdaemun Design Plaza opened to the public in Seoul, South Korea, transforming a former stadium site into a landmark arts and design hub.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Leeza SOHO Opens with the World’s Tallest Atrium
Leeza SOHO, Jinwan South Street, Fengtai District, Beijing, ChinaZaha Hadid Architects
Starts 11/19/2019CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE6.8 years agoThe B1M’s March 2018 video and article described the tower as if newly finished, but construction was still ongoing (topping out was only September 2017); Zaha Hadid^[4] Architects’ own announcement and multiple design outlets confirm Leeza SOHO actually opened on 19 November 2019. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "zaha hadid architects completes 'leeza SOHO tower' in beijing".
Zaha Hadid Architects’ twisting Beijing skyscraper opened with a 194-metre atrium spanning two towers built around a live subway line.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Beirut Terraces Completes as a Layered Skyscraper
Beirut Terraces, Fouad Najjar Street, Minet el-Hosn, Beirut, LebanonHerzog & de Meuron
Starts 12/31/2016ESTIMATED 69% CONFIDENCE9.7 years agoEstimated: Herzog & de Meuron's own project page gives 'Project 2009-2012, Realization 2012-2016', and Architizer and WorldArchitecture likewise give 2016, so the pin takes the end of 2016. Wikipedia's^[3] 2017 completion year is the outlier; no source gives a day.
Herzog & de Meuron's stacked, terraced residential tower rises in Beirut's rebuilt Minet el-Hosn district, near the site of the 2005 Hariri bombing.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Caffè Florian Opens on Piazza San Marco
Caffè Florian, 57, Piazza San Marco, San Marco, Venezia-Murano-Burano, Lido, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, 30124, ItalyCaffè Florian
Starts 12/31/1720ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE305.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - founded 1720 - so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]
Floriano Francesconi opened his coffee house under the arcades of Piazza San Marco in 1720, making it one of the oldest cafés in continuous business anywhere. It admitted women when other Venetian cafés did not, which is how Casanova came to be among its regulars, and its orchestra still plays to the square.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Bewley's Opens as a Dublin Tea Dealer
Bewley's Café, 78-79, Grafton Street, Royal Exchange B Ward 1986, Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, D02 F798, IrelandBewley's
Starts 12/31/1840ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE185.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - founded 1840 in Dublin - so the pin takes that year's last day.^[1]
The Bewley family began dealing tea in Dublin in 1840, having broken the East India Company's grip on the trade by shipping direct from China, and the cafés followed. The Grafton Street room, with its Harry Clarke windows and open fires, became the city's front parlour.
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Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Antwerp's Oosterweel Ring Road Targets 2030
Oosterweel, Antwerp, BelgiumLantis
Starts 12/31/2030ESTIMATED 66% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target, per the source^[1]: "there's still a lot to do to reach the 2030 target for completion."
Belgium's €10BN Oosterweel project is finally closing the long-unfinished Antwerp Ring Road, using sunken river tunnels and a route built inside an existing canal to cut chronic traffic delays.
€7B
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Cafe Batavia Opens on Fatahillah Square
Cafe Batavia, Taman Fatahillah, Pinangsia, Taman Sari, West Jakarta, IndonesiaCafe Batavia
Starts 12/31/1993ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE32.7 years agoThe article records the restaurant as established in 1993 without a month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day. The building itself is far older than the restaurant in it.^[1]
Cafe Batavia opened in 1993 in the second-oldest building on Jakarta's old town square, a Dutch colonial house restored as a restaurant, with teak floors, ceiling fans and walls papered in old portraits. It faces the former city hall across the cobbles of Fatahillah Square.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
The Vessel Opens at Hudson Yards
Hudson Yards, Manhattan, New York, NY, USARelated Companies
Starts 03/15/2019CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE7.5 years agoConfirmed against contemporaneous coverage of the public opening. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Vessel opened to the public on March 15, 2019".
Thomas Heatherwick's climbable honeycomb staircase, The Vessel, opens to the public as the centrepiece of Manhattan's new Hudson Yards district.
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Sports09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Xi'an International Football Center Hosts Its First Match
Xi'an International Football Center, Fengdong New District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, ChinaZaha Hadid Architects
Starts 09/03/2025CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "On 3 September 2025, the Xi'an International Football Center held its first official match."
Zaha Hadid Architects' 60,000-seat Xi'an International Football Center hosted its first official match, years after construction began in a city better known for ancient dynasties than football.
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Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Beijing Daxing International Airport Opens
Beijing Daxing International Airport, Daxing District, Beijing, ChinaZaha Hadid Architects
Starts 09/25/2019CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE7.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The airport opened on 25 September 2019."
Beijing opened Daxing International Airport, a vast starfish-shaped terminal designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to relieve pressure on the capital’s overcrowded main airport.
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Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Hamburg Port Authority Opens the Rethebrücke as Europe's Largest Rail Bascule Bridge
Rethe Canal, Hamburg, GermanyHamburg Port Authority
Starts 12/15/2017CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE8.8 years agoHamburg Port Authority's^[3] press release states the Rethebrücke, Europe's largest rail bascule bridge, went into operation on 15 December 2017.
Hamburg Port Authority put the new Rethebrücke rail bascule bridge into operation over the Rethe canal, replacing the original 1934 lift bridge and becoming Europe's largest rail bascule bridge.
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