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Earls Court Redevelopment Starts on Site
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysThe developer's announcement says only that "early construction work is expected to begin in 2026", a year rather than a date.[1]The 44-acre former exhibition site won consent from Hammersmith & Fulham on 26 November 2025 and Kensington & Chelsea on 16 December 2025, a decade after the exhibition halls came down. Phase one of the GBP 10bn masterplan covers the first 1,300 homes, offices, a cultural venue and a 4.5-acre park, with the whole site due to be finished by 2043.0.71Circus West Village, Phase One of Battersea Power Station, Completes
Circus West Village, Battersea Power Station, Electric Boulevard, Nine Elms, London SW11 8DD, United Kingdom
ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCE9.0 years agoEstimated: SimpsonHaugh's[2] project data gives completion as September 2017 (Buro Happold[3] gives only the year), and no day is published, so the month's last day stands in.Circus West Village, the first completed phase of London's Battersea Power Station regeneration designed by SimpsonHaugh and built by Carillion, wrapped up as the scheme's opening residential and retail quarter.0.68UK Approves China's 'Mega-Embassy' at Royal Mint Court
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Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the chimes of Big Ben returned to regular service for the first time since August 2017" on Remembrance Sunday, 13 November 2022.After a five-year, £80M restoration, the bells of Big Ben return to regular service in London’s Elizabeth Tower for the first time since 2017.£80M0.66Olympia 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 2027.0.66Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Children and Young People Finally Opens
DELAYED68% CONFIDENCE5.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The hospital was officially opened on 23 March 2021".Edinburgh's £150M Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, designed by HLM Architects and built by Brookfield Multiplex, opened to patients after ventilation and drainage faults forced repeated delays.£150M0.66Mass General's Ragon Building Opens Its First Tower to Patients
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE10.2 years agoHappened as dated: WWD[2] reports the event of 1 July 2016 at which Diego Della Valle and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi marked the completion of the first part of the restoration, begun in September 2013. The whole project was then expected to run to 2020-2022.A three-year, Tod's-funded restoration of the Colosseum's facade - the first phase of a longer project - wrapped up with a ceremony attended by Italy's prime minister, revealing the monument's stone cleaned of two millennia of grime.0.65Notre-Dame de Paris Restoration Complete
Paris, France
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…opened to worshippers in December 2024. Estimated date.…"Work continues on the exterior, flying buttresses and sacristy after the cathedral reopened to worshippers in December 2024. Estimated date.$739M0.65US Embassy Opens in Nine Elms, London
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE8.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the $1bn US embassy in London opened its doors to the public for the first time on 16 January" 2018.The US opened its $1BN embassy in London's Nine Elms, a 12-storey glass-cube fortress replacing the historic Grosvenor Square site the US had occupied since 1785.$1B0.65Great Portland Estates Completes 18 Hanover Square
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoEstimated: the 17 September 2020 practical completion Buildington[3] records is for the neighbouring Grade II* listed 20 Hanover Square, not 18 Hanover Square. GPE's[2] release of 12 May 2021 says the final office letting came 'less than six months after practical completion', putting 18 Hanover Square's completion after mid-November 2020, so the pin takes the end of that quarter. No source gives the day.Great Portland Estates finishes its four-building Hanover Square scheme in Mayfair, built directly above the new Bond Street Elizabeth Line station's eastern ticket hall.0.65
