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FOUR Frankfurt's Tallest Tower Opens in Europe's New Skyscraper Capital
FOUR Frankfurt, Junghofstraße, Innenstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE348 days agoConfirmed by building trackers: Tower 1 topped out at its full 233-metre height in May 2023 and went on to obtain its occupancy certificate on October 10, 2025, after interior fit-out.[1]FOUR Frankfurt's 233-metre Tower 1, the centrepiece of a four-tower mixed-use complex, received its occupancy certificate, capping a project that helped cement Frankfurt as continental Europe's densest skyscraper cluster.0.67Tour 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.€700M0.65Frankfurt 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.0.64Lakhta 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.0.64Tokyo Skytree Opens to the Public
CONFIRMED72% CONFIDENCE14.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Tokyo Skytree was completed on Leap Day, 29 February 2012, with the tower opening to the public on 22 May 2012".Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower at the time and an earthquake-engineering showcase, opened to visitors in Sumida, Tokyo.¥65B0.63Demel Opens as a Konditorei by the Hofburg
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE239.7 years agoWikipedia[1] gives the year only - "established in 1786 in Vienna" - with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.Demel was established in 1786 a few steps from the Hofburg and became confectioner to the imperial court, a title it still puts on its boxes. Its window on the Kohlmarkt and its Anna Torte made it one of the fixtures by which Vienna measures its café culture, and it sits at the centre of a long argument with Hotel Sacher over who may call a cake a Sachertorte.0.62520 Fifth Avenue Tops Out
ESTIMATED62% CONFIDENCE1.9 years agoThe pin's event is the topping out, which New York YIMBY[3] and Connect CRE both reported on 24-25 October 2024 and which Wikipedia[2] gives as October 2024. The previous date of 1 June 2026 was Wikipedia's estimated completion date, not the topping out. No source gives the exact day, so this is dated to the last day of that month as an estimate.A 1,001-foot Kohn Pedersen Fox supertall at 520 Fifth Avenue, one of the first new Manhattan skyscrapers in decades built with a masonry-style terracotta facade instead of glass.0.62The Millau Viaduct Opens to Traffic
CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE21.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the viaduct "was inaugurated on 14 December 2004" and "goes into service" on December 16, 2004.Norman Foster's Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, opened over southern France's Tarn valley, completing the A75 motorway route between Paris and the Mediterranean.0.61Construction 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.0.61Germany's First 3D-Printed House Opens in Beckum
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: PERI's[2] press release of 28 July 2021 says "Today, the single-family house printed by PERI using a COBOD BOD2 printer was officially opened in Beckum"; The Construction Index[3] reports the same opening.PERI officially opened a single-family home in Beckum, the first 3D-printed house in Germany to be fully certified under national building regulations.0.61Dubai to Add the World's First Rotating Skyscraper to Its Skyline by 2020
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE5.8 years agoHappened as dated, per interestingengineering.com[1]: "…“Dynamic Tower” which is expected to be completed in 2020. Th … line by 2020 Dubai will be home to t…"Dubai will be home to the first rotating skyscraper, dubbed the “Dynamic Tower” which is expected to be completed in 2020. The 42-meter skyscraper will be made of a series of 80-story-high rotating condos each costing a whopping $30 million.$30M0.61Madrid–Barcelona High-Speed Line Opens, Completing Spain's Flagship AVE Corridor
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE18.6 years agoWikipedia's[3] Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line article gives 20 February 2008 as the date the complete line opened, after the Madrid–Zaragoza–Lleida section opened in October 2003.Adif's Madrid–Barcelona high-speed line opened in full on 20 February 2008, cutting the 621km journey to about 2 hours 30 minutes and becoming the backbone of the AVE network that engineering crews are now upgrading for 350km/h running.0.61
