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Shanghai Grand Opera House Opens on the Huangpu River
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 24 daysPudong's[1] English government news page says the "Shanghai Grand Opera House will open on Oct 17 on the east bank of the Huangpu River", a fixed announced date.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 2027.0.64The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens in Exposition Park
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1 day agoThe museum's own site carries "Opening September 22, 2026" beside its ticket link, so the day comes from the institution itself.[1]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.0.64One Vanderbilt Opens Beside Grand Central
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "One Vanderbilt was formally opened with a ceremony three days later, on September 14."One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-foot supertall office tower beside Grand Central Terminal, formally opened in Midtown Manhattan.$3.3B0.60Olympia Opens to the Public After Its Kensington Rebuild
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE100 days agoOlympia's[1] own press release, headed "The all-new Olympia opens", gives 15 June 2026 as the opening day of the transformed destination.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 2027.0.60Dubai Opera Opens in Downtown Dubai
Downtown Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE10.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "It opened on 31 August 2016 with a performance by Plácido Domingo."Dubai Opera, a 2,000-seat performing arts venue shaped like a dhow, opened in the city's Opera District with a Plácido Domingo gala.0.60Cosm's LED Dome Opens as Centennial Yards' First Venue
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE105 days agoCosm's[1] own construction update announced that the Atlanta venue "will debut for the public on June 10", and Atlanta News First reported from the opening that day.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.0.59Els Quatre Gats Opens in Barcelona's Casa Martí
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE129.3 years agoWikipedia[1] states the day outright: "The café opened on 12 June 1897 in the celebrated Casa Martí".The café that became the meeting room of Catalan modernisme opened on 12 June 1897 in the Casa Martí, a Puig i Cadafalch building in the Gothic Quarter. It lasted only six years in its first run, but in them it hosted Picasso's first solo exhibition and the circle around Rusiñol and Casas - and he drew its menu card.0.58Punk Noir Opens in the Dallas Design District
139, Turtle Creek Boulevard, Design District, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, 75207, United StatesPunk Noir
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE113 days agoTwo Dallas outlets give the same day. FSR magazine[1] (18 May 2026) and CultureMap[2] Dallas both put the opening on Tuesday 2 June 2026 at 139 Turtle Creek Blvd, and 2 June 2026 is indeed a Tuesday. The concept had been trailed since September 2025 as opening "in early 2026", so the June date is the firm one rather than the early estimate.A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.$295.000.58The Fox: NGV Contemporary Targets a 2028 Opening in Melbourne
The Fox: NGV Contemporary, 77-87 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaNational Gallery of Victoria
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the source[1]: NGV Contemporary "is slated to open in 2028."The National Gallery of Victoria's new contemporary art wing, The Fox: NGV Contemporary, is under construction in Melbourne's Southbank arts precinct with a targeted 2028 opening, part of a rivalry with Hobart's MONA.0.58Grand Central Madison Opens After $11BN East Side Access Project
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE3.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the station opened as scheduled on that date, with the first train leaving Jamaica at 10:45 am."The MTA's East Side Access project opened Grand Central Madison, a new Long Island Rail Road terminal built in caverns roughly 150 feet beneath Park Avenue.$11B0.58Café Kranzler Opens on Unter den Linden
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE191.7 years agoThe article states it "Opened in 1834 on the Unter den Linden boulevard" with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day. It is placed at the City West rotunda, where the business moved after the war, not at the original Linden address.[1]Café Kranzler opened on Unter den Linden in 1834 and became the Berlin coffeehouse. Destroyed in the war, it was rebuilt on the Kurfürstendamm, where its red-and-white striped rotunda survives as a listed landmark of West Berlin's reconstruction.0.57Café Gerbeaud Opens on Vörösmarty Square
Gerbeaud Confectionary, 7-8, Vörösmarty square, Lipótváros, 5th district, Budapest, Central Hungary, 1051, HungaryCafé Gerbeaud
ESTIMATED75% 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.0.57
