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Frankfurt's Omniturm, an Early Swing-Use Skyscraper, Opens
CONFIRMED81% CONFIDENCE6.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the tower "was completed and inaugurated in 2019," with reporting placing that milestone in winter of that year.Tishman Speyer's Omniturm opened in Frankfurt as Germany's first true mixed-use high-rise, with separate lobbies letting offices and apartments share the same elevator core without ever mixing.0.73Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3 Opens
CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCE153 days agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the first travellers to arrive at Frankfurt's brand-new... Terminal 3", on April 23, 2026.Frankfurt Airport's new Terminal 3 opened after more than a decade of construction, giving Germany's biggest airport its first major expansion since the troubled Berlin Brandenburg saga.0.73Lakhta Center Opens as Europe's Tallest Building
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE6.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the official opening of the Lakhta Center multifunctional complex took place on December 5, 2019."The 462m Lakhta Center opened on the outskirts of St Petersburg, becoming Europe's tallest building and the world's northernmost skyscraper, taller than the Empire State Building.0.70Construction Begins on Frankfurt Airport's €4 Billion Terminal 3
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE11.0 years agoFraport's[2] own Terminal 3 press kit states 'the groundbreaking ceremony for Terminal 3 took place on October 5, 2015.'Fraport broke ground on Terminal 3, a roughly €4 billion expansion of Frankfurt Airport that would add three passenger piers and a 69-meter control tower.0.70Tour Triangle Is Delivered at Porte de Versailles
DELAYED1 day late40% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysFrance 3's site visit reports the tower is "au niveau du 35e etage... pour une livraison finale debut 2027" - final delivery in early 2027, a season rather than a date.[1]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.€700M0.67Emaar Properties Opens Burj Khalifa as the World's Tallest Building
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE16.7 years agoGuinness World Records[2] and The National both confirm the official opening ceremony took place on January 4, 2010.Emaar Properties officially opened the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, timed to the fifth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's accession to power. The tower took the world's-tallest-building title from Taipei 101 by a record margin.0.65Egypt's Iconic Tower Completed
New Administrative Capital, Egypt
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE1.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the Iconic Tower's "official completion date was 2024".The 394-metre Iconic Tower in Egypt's New Administrative Capital was completed in 2024, becoming Africa's first supertall skyscraper and its tallest building.0.65One London Tower Targets 2033 Completion
Undershaft, City of London, United Kingdom
ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCEin 7.3 yearsA target, per the source[1]: the tower "will begin construction in 2028 for a completion in 2033," after receiving "full planning consent from the City of London[3] Corporation in December 2025."One London, the tower formerly known as 1 Undershaft that will match the Shard as Western Europe's tallest building, finally won full planning consent after nearly a decade of delays.0.64Leeza SOHO Opens with the World’s Tallest Atrium
CONFIRMED90% 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.0.63Mjøstårnet Becomes the World's Tallest Timber Tower in Brumunddal
Mjøstårnet, Brumunddal, Ringsaker, Norway
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.5 years agoWikipedia[4] and Norway Today state Mjøstårnet was completed in March 2019, with its official opening on March 15, 2019.At 85.4 meters and 18 storeys, Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal, Norway opened as the world's tallest timber building, built from engineered glue-laminated wood instead of steel or concrete.0.6322 Bishopsgate Reaches Practical Completion
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCE5.8 years agoEstimated: Multiplex's[3] news item of 4 December 2020 says the team achieved practical completion "earlier this week" without naming the day, so the announcement date stands in for the milestone.Multiplex's 62-storey 22 Bishopsgate tower - planned and sequenced using an immersive 4D virtual-reality model - reaches practical completion, becoming the City of London's tallest building.0.62Gustave Eiffel’s Company Completes the Eiffel Tower
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE137.5 years agoHistory.com[3] and the Eiffel Tower’s own history page date the structure’s completion and dedication ceremony to 31 March 1889.Gustave Eiffel’s engineering firm finished the Eiffel Tower in Paris after just over two years of construction, built as the entrance arch for the 1889 Exposition Universelle. The 300-metre iron lattice tower was the tallest man-made structure in the world at the time.0.62
