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Combustible cladding turned a fourth-floor kitchen fire into an inferno that engulfed a 24-storey London housing block, killing 72 residents.

Waugh Thistleton's 10-storey Dalston Works in east London is completed, becoming the largest cross-laminated timber structure built anywhere to date.

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.

Foster + Partners’ new Bloomberg European headquarters in the City of London opened with the highest BREEAM sustainability score ever awarded to a major office building.

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.

Network Rail finished its five-year, roughly £1 billion rebuild of London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme, and Prince William officially reopened the unified station on 9 May 2018. The project gave the station a single new concourse and step-free access to every platform.

British Land completed a stripped-back rebuild of an aging 1980s Broadgate office block into 100 Liverpool Street, a low-carbon commercial tower beside Liverpool Street station.

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.

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.

Nature publishes Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, alongside open-source code and a database of predicted proteomes. Protein structure prediction stops being a bottleneck for drug discovery.

Herzog & de Meuron's 205-metre One Park Drive tower, the centrepiece of Canary Wharf's new Wood Wharf district on reclaimed Thames-side land, opened to its first residents in London.

Brett Graham's Notting Hill restaurant came back in February 2022 after a closure long enough to cost it its Michelin stars - not by losing them on the plate, but because a shut restaurant cannot be assessed, and the trading restrictions of the pandemic made reopening impractical for its kind of room. It had held two stars from 2010 until 2021, and it regained them after the return.

London's £18.9BN Elizabeth Line opens through central London, bringing its new Tottenham Court Road station into service after years of Crossrail tunnelling and delay.

Gatwick Airport finished an overnight resurfacing of its main runway's busiest sections in September 2022, using a leaner method that cut the job to half the usual time and cost, using 70% less asphalt.

London's Bond Street station opened to Elizabeth Line services, closing out the last and most delayed piece of the Crossrail project.

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.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment pulled the plug on its planned Stratford "Sphere" after years of opposition over light pollution and a rejected planning application.

The 155-metre '40 Leadenhall' tower, nicknamed Gotham City for its stepped neo-gothic form, has reached completion in the City of London's insurance district.

Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

The UK government granted planning permission for China's new London embassy at the historic Royal Mint Court site, ending years of delays and security objections.

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.

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For the first time the Ballon d'Or leaves Paris: the 2026 ceremony is on Monday 26 October 2026 in London, marking 70 years since the first award. On 20 September 2026 Harry Kane was a clear favourite on both exchanges at 55-56%, with Lamine Yamal at 22% and Kylian Mbappé at 8%.

London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.

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.

The ladies' singles final is played on Centre Court on the second Saturday of the Championships, for the Venus Rosewater Dish. The All England Club has the 2027 fortnight running 28 June to 11 July.

The oldest title in tennis is decided on Centre Court on the second Sunday. The All England Club has published its 2027 dates: the Championships run 28 June to 11 July, and the gentlemen's singles final closes them.

The only London scheme in wave one of the New Hospital Programme puts a net-zero replacement hospital on the western edge of the Uxbridge site, with 327 homes alongside it, inside a capital envelope of GBP 1-1.5bn. Laing O'Rourke signed the delivery contract on 30 July 2026; the trust's milestones run construction to 2032 with the hospital available to patients in early 2033.

The United Kingdom and Ireland co-host the European Championship across nine stadiums. Estimated date.

GSK's phase 3 trial of MRNA Seasonal Flu Vaccine in influenza, human reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 54,000 participants. This study will compare an investigational mRNA flu vaccine with a licensed flu vaccine in adults 65 years of age and older. Participants will receive one injection and will be followed during the flu season. The study will measure prevention of laboratory-confirmed flu illness, side effects, and immune responses.

Time Out brings its market home to the city where the magazine started in 1968: 26,400 square feet over three floors at 10 Piccadilly, on a long-term partnership with The Crown Estate, as the flagship of the whole portfolio.

The privately financed project shifts Gatwick's standby northern runway 12 metres north so it can take departures alongside the main runway, adding room for around 100,000 more flights a year. The Court of Appeal dismissed the last legal challenge on 4 August 2026, and the work also covers terminal extensions, new airport buildings and a flyover at the South Terminal roundabout.

A £3BN, seven-year preliminary phase to repair the crumbling Palace of Westminster, before Parliament chooses between fully vacating the building or working around it.

One London, the tower formerly known as 1 Undershaft that will match the Shard as Western Europe's tallest building, finally won full planning consent after nearly a decade of delays.

Heathrow Airport has set out a £49BN expansion plan, including a long-sought third runway and a new terminal complex, and has approved work on a planning application after decades of UK government indecision.