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Tokyo 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.¥65B0.62One Za'abeel Opens With the World's Longest Cantilever
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE2.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The development was completed in December 2023 and officially opened on 10 February 2024."Dubai's One Za'abeel opened to the public, its twin towers joined by The Link, a 230-metre skybridge that went on to set the Guinness World Record for longest cantilevered building.AED 3.7B0.62Gardens by the Bay's Flower Dome Opens as the World's Largest Columnless Glasshouse
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ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCE116.7 years agoWikipedia[2] dates the current building's completion to 1909 - "essentially finished by mid-1909" - with the Flinders Street verandah and the concourse roof finished only after the official opening in 1910. No source gives an exact day, so the date sits on the last day of 1909.Victorian Railways finished the current Flinders Street Station building in Melbourne, replacing earlier structures with the Federation Free Classical terminus still in use today. The building was essentially finished in 1909, with the official opening the following year.0.60Australia 108 Tops Out as Tallest Residential Tower in Southern Hemisphere
ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE6.2 years agoEstimated: Wikipedia's[2] infobox gives the topping out as June 2020 (its source, urban.com.au, reported it on 10 June 2020) without settling a day in the infobox, so the month's last day stands in. Completion followed in September 2020.Australia 108 topped out at level 100 in Melbourne's Southbank, becoming the tallest building in Australia by roof height and the tallest residential tower in the Southern Hemisphere; construction was completed three months later, in September 2020.0.60Inside Australia's Tallest New Skyscraper
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoEstimated: Wikipedia's[2] infobox and CTBUH give completion as September 2020 without a day, so the month's last day stands in. The tower had topped out earlier, in June 2020.Australia 108, a 316.7-metre residential tower in Melbourne’s Southbank district, is completed, three months after topping out as the tallest building in Australia by roof height and the tallest residential tower in the Southern Hemisphere.A$900M0.6022 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.0.60Jewel Changi Airport Opens in Singapore
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Melbourne Airport, Victoria, Australia
DELAYED4 years late67% CONFIDENCEin 7.3 yearsDate has moved, per the source[1]: originally due by 2029, "that deadline is now looking a lot more like 2033"; Victoria’s own project page confirms the later date.A AU$12BN rail line to finally connect Melbourne Airport to the city, alongside a AU$4.5BN airport overhaul that adds a third runway and expands the international terminal.A$12B0.59Crown Sydney Opens at Barangaroo
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "select Crown Sydney venues were open to the public for the first time from December 28" 2020.Crown Sydney, the AUD $2.2BN, 71-storey tower at Barangaroo designed by Wilkinson Eyre, opened its hotel and restaurants after a construction run through the Covid-19 pandemic.A$2.2B0.59
