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Tour 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.€700M0.62City of Paris Inaugurates La Canopée at Les Halles
CONFIRMED80% 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.0.62Co-Owners Scrap the €800M Tour Montparnasse Overhaul
Tour Montparnasse, Paris, France
CONFIRMED85% 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.€800M0.60Gustave 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.0.59Café Tortoni Opens on Avenida de Mayo
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE167.7 years agoWikipedia[1] gives the year only - "First opened in 1858 by a French immigrant" - with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.Café Tortoni first opened in 1858, started by a French immigrant who named it after a Paris cafe, and became the room where Buenos Aires argued about itself - Borges, Gardel and Rubinstein among the regulars whose likenesses now sit at its tables. It still trades on Avenida de Mayo with its original marble, mirrors and tango cellar.0.57Montreal's Olympic Stadium Roof Targeted to Reopen in 2028
Stade olympique, 4545 Avenue Pierre-De Coubertin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "expected to be completed by 2028".Quebec is replacing the perpetually troubled retractable roof of Montreal’s 1976 Olympic Stadium with a new fixed structure, targeting a 2028 reopening.C$870M0.57Kronenhalle Opens in Zurich
Kronenhalle, 4, Rämistrasse, Hochschulen, Altstadt, Zurich, District Zurich, Zurich, 8001, SwitzerlandKronenhalle
ESTIMATED75% 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.0.56The One Placed Into Receivership in Toronto
Yonge and Bloor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the tower "was taken over by a court-appointed receiver" in "October 2023" after "financiers defaulted on more than $1.2 billion in loans."The One, an 85-storey tower at Yonge and Bloor meant to be Canada's first supertall skyscraper, was placed into receivership after its financiers defaulted on more than $1.2BN in loans.C$1.2B0.56Henraux Begins Quarrying Marble at Monte Altissimo
ESTIMATED57% CONFIDENCE205.7 years agoFondazione Henraux[8] and Quarry Magazine[7] both date the company's founding to 1821, but neither source gives a specific month or day.In 1821, landowner Marco Borrini and French businessman Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Henraux founded the Henraux marble company in Tuscany’s Apuan Alps. It still works the Monte Altissimo quarries first opened by Michelangelo in the 1500s and shown in Stone Men.0.56The Roland-Garros Men's Singles Final
Court Philippe-Chatrier, Stade Roland Garros, 2 Avenue Gordon Bennett, 75016 Paris, FranceFrench Tennis Federation
SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEin 256 daysRoland-Garros's[2] own site gives the 2027 edition as "17 May - 6 June 2027"; the men's singles final is the last match of the last day.The clay-court major ends on Court Philippe-Chatrier, where the men's singles final is played for the Coupe des Mousquetaires. Chatrier has had a retractable roof since 2020, but the surface still decides the tennis: the slowest, longest matches of the year are played here.0.56Real Madrid's Rebuilt Bernabéu Finally Wraps Up
DELAYED60% 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.€1.8B0.56Odette Opens Inside the National Gallery Singapore
ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCE10.7 years agoWikipedia[1] gives the year only - "Founded in 2015 by chef Julien Royer" - with no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 in the National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall converted into a museum, and named it after his grandmother. It became the highest-ranked restaurant in Singapore on the Asia's 50 Best list and one of the city's three-star addresses, cooking a French menu built around named producers.0.56
