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Sydney Approves Taller Skyscrapers Above Its 235m Cap
Sydney Tower, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "In 2021, the City of Sydney announced that the state government had approved its planning framework that would allow buildings of up to 310m."Sydney's decades-old rule capping buildings at 235m, tied to the height of Sydney Tower, gave way as the state government approved a planning framework allowing towers up to 310m.0.71San Francisco's Millennium Tower Fix Declared a Success
301 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE3.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the pile-driving and load-shifting project "was finished earlier this month," in an article published June 21, 2023.Engineers completed a $100M underpinning project meant to arrest the sinking and tilt of San Francisco's Millennium Tower.$100M0.68Sydney Opera House Officially Opens
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW, Australia
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE52.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II."Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Sydney Opera House, capping fourteen years of construction that ran a decade late and far over its original budget.0.67Atlassian Central Tops Out as the World's Tallest Hybrid Timber Tower
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE63 days agoThe report says a "topping out ceremony" was held at the Atlassian Central skyscraper in Sydney on Wednesday, 22 July 2026.[1]The 39-storey, 180-metre tower beside Central Station reached its full height at a topping-out ceremony, making it the world's tallest hybrid timber and steel building. Co-owned by Atlassian and the property group Dexus, it anchors Sydney's Tech Central precinct and is expected to be completed in 2027.A$1.4B0.66Inside 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$900M0.65Gustave 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.0.65Crown 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$2.2B0.64Pinnacle SkyTower Opens in Toronto
SCHEDULED76% CONFIDENCE1 day agoGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: Pinnacle SkyTower "will be Canada's tallest residential building when it opens in the fall of 2026."Pinnacle SkyTower, a 106-storey, 352m tower on Toronto's waterfront, becomes Canada's tallest building, taking the title from One Bloor West.0.64Jeddah Tower Completion
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
ESTIMATED64% CONFIDENCEin 1.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…ed in January 2025, and the building is expected to be completed as early as 2028.[13] Site Jeddah T…"Construction resumed on the first building designed to pass 1,000 metres, intended to take the world's-tallest title from the Burj Khalifa. Estimated date.$1.2B0.64Australia 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 2020.0.6422 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.0.64Egypt's Iconic Tower Completed
New Administrative Capital, Egypt
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE1.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the Iconic Tower's "official completion date was 2024".The 394-metre Iconic Tower in Egypt's New Administrative Capital was completed in 2024, becoming Africa's first supertall skyscraper and its tallest building.0.64
