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Gran Torre Costanera Completes as South America's Tallest Skyscraper
ESTIMATED71% CONFIDENCE11.7 years agoThe completion year is not settled. Pelli Clarke & Partners' project page gives 2014, while Wikipedia's[2] infobox and text give 2013, with finishing work running into 2014 and the official opening postponed to that year. The architect's 2014 is kept, dated to the last day of the year, but only as an estimate.Santiago's 300-metre Gran Torre Costanera, nicknamed "the Mordor of Santiago" by critics, topped out in February 2012 and was finished as the tallest building on the continent - a completion its architect dates to 2014 and Wikipedia to 2013.0.70Senna Tower Breaks Ground in Balneário Camboriú
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE359 days agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "A construção do Senna Tower teve início no dia 29 de setembro de 2025".Construction began on the Senna Tower, a supertall residential skyscraper in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil designed to become the tallest residential building on Earth.0.67Emaar Properties Opens Burj Khalifa as the World's Tallest Building
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE16.7 years agoGuinness World Records[2] and The National both confirm the official opening ceremony took place on January 4, 2010.Emaar Properties officially opened the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, timed to the fifth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's accession to power. The tower took the world's-tallest-building title from Taipei 101 by a record margin.0.67Leeza SOHO Opens with the World’s Tallest Atrium
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE6.8 years agoThe B1M’s March 2018 video and article described the tower as if newly finished, but construction was still ongoing (topping out was only September 2017); Zaha Hadid[4] Architects’ own announcement and multiple design outlets confirm Leeza SOHO actually opened on 19 November 2019. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "zaha hadid architects completes 'leeza SOHO tower' in beijing".Zaha Hadid Architects’ twisting Beijing skyscraper opened with a 194-metre atrium spanning two towers built around a live subway line.0.66BD Bacatá's Crowdfunded Tower Tops Out in Bogotá
DELAYED63% CONFIDENCE11.2 years agoThe topping out is dated: Wikipedia[2] records the south tower's final slab poured on 24 July 2015, completing its 67 floors and full 216 m as Colombia's tallest building. The north tower's last slab followed on 20 December 2015 and structural work finished on 24 February 2016; the pin's old end-of-2016 date matched none of these. The opening itself kept slipping for years afterwards.Financed by more than 3,800 small Colombian investors instead of one developer, BD Bacatá reaches its final floor as the country’s tallest building, though its full opening keeps slipping.0.66China Expands Its Nationwide Skyscraper Height Caps
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Skyscrapers taller than 150 meters are not allowed to be built in cities with less than 3 million people".China's housing ministry tightened its skyscraper rules nationwide, barring any new building over 150m in cities under 3 million people and capping larger cities at 250m.0.65Merdeka 118's Spire Completes as World's Second Tallest
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE3.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "When its spire was completed in 2022, it took the building's height up above 600-metres."Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka 118 topped out with its spire in place, reaching 678.9m to become the world's second-tallest building and one of only four megatall skyscrapers on Earth.0.65Real Madrid's Rebuilt Bernabéu Finally Wraps Up
DELAYED60% CONFIDENCE1.7 years agoThe reopening slipped past several earlier target dates before the stadium was substantially finished going into the 2024/25 season. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "close to €1.347 billion" had been spent by mid-2025 on the finishing work.Real Madrid's four-year overhaul of the Santiago Bernabéu — a new steel facade, retractable roof and a fully removable pitch — ran years past its original target before wrapping up.€1.8B0.65Azabudai Hills' Mori JP Tower Completes as Japan's Tallest Building
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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.¥65B0.64Muraba Veil Skyscraper
ESTIMATED62% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsA target, per the source[1]: the tower "is set for completion in December 2028", with no official opening date yet announced.Dubai developer Muraba and Pritzker Prize-winner RCR Arquitectes are building Muraba Veil, a 380m tower just 22.5m wide wrapped in a porous steel mesh, among the world's skinniest skyscrapers.0.64City of Paris Inaugurates La Canopée at Les Halles
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE10.5 years agoFrench outlets Batiactu[3] and Ingélux, and Wikipedia's[2] French edition, date the Canopée's public inauguration to April 5, 2016.Paris unveiled La Canopée, a sweeping glass-and-steel roof capping the decade-long, roughly 800 million euro renovation of the Forum des Halles shopping and transit hub. Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the inauguration of the structure designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti.0.64
