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The St. Regis Costa Mujeres Resort, Cancún opened in late June 2026 with 163 rooms and suites and 86 branded residences, designed by Sordo Madaleno on the Mexican Caribbean coast.

Hoshino Resorts opened the 48-suite HOSHINOYA Nara Prison on 25 June 2026 inside the 1908 former Nara Prison, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, after about seven years of restoration.

Four Seasons Hotel Mykonos opened for its first summer season in June 2026, the brand's second hotel in Greece, with 94 rooms, suites and villas over six hectares above Kalo Livadi Bay. The resort has a private beach, two infinity pools and four restaurants and bars.

Crews finished installing a base-isolation system beneath the 19th-century Salt Lake Temple as part of an estimated $2.4 billion project to let the building float free of the ground during a major earthquake.

Structural steel columns buckled at 235 East 42nd Street, the former Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan being converted into roughly 1,600 apartments, forcing an evacuation and emergency stabilisation.

After 14 years of stalled foundations, construction officially restarted on 2 World Trade Center with a groundbreaking ceremony, anchored by American Express as its future headquarters tenant.

Ten years after Paris approved Nouvelle AOM's full glass-facade transformation of the Tour Montparnasse, the tower's co-owners voted to abandon that plan in favour of a smaller, cheaper intervention.

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.

Four Seasons reopened the historic Hotel Danieli in Venice as Danieli, Venezia, a Four Seasons Hotel, welcoming first guests on 30 July 2026 after a restoration led by Pierre-Yves Rochon. It reopens with 120 rooms and suites, growing to 168 in 2027.

Amanvari, Aman's first resort in Mexico, opened on 1 August 2026 within the Costa Palmas community on Baja California Sur with 18 casitas and private pools.

Banyan Group opened Banyan Tree Mount Emei on 1 August 2026 in Sichuan, a 130-room resort whose rooms and villas each have a private hot-spring pool, at the foot of the UNESCO-listed Mount Emei.

Melbourne's planned 366-metre STH BNK by Beulah tower, once set to be Australia's tallest building and a supertall vertical garden, collapsed after its developer defaulted on financing.

The Buffalo Bills' roughly $2.1 billion open-air replacement for Highmark Stadium hosted its first game across the road from the team's old venue in Orchard Park, New York.

Berlin's abandoned, billion-mark ICC convention centre, nicknamed the 'spaceship', went out to tender for a 99-year ground lease, and the Land Berlin has now tied itself to one bidder: the Projektpartnerschaft Quartier ICC, which has until 30 June 2027 to negotiate the lease and a reuse plan built around events and the creative industries.

The 74-storey, 1,022-foot tower above Waller Creek opens in stages, starting with its 251-room 1 Hotel, and stacks 703,000 square feet of offices and 352 flats above it. At full height it passes Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower, which had been the tallest building in Texas since 1981, by 23 feet.

Georgia Tech cut the ribbon on Tech Square Phase 3, a 416,500-square-foot complex of the 18-storey George Tower for the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the 14-storey Scheller Tower for the business school, joined by a shared lift core. Its first three floors had opened to the campus in January 2026.

1 Hotel Austin, the brand's first hotel in Texas, opened on 18 September 2026 inside the 74-story Waterline tower with 252 rooms and suites.

Pinnacle SkyTower, a 106-storey, 352m tower on Toronto's waterfront, becomes Canada's tallest building, taking the title from One Bloor West.

George Lucas's museum of narrative art opens to the public on 22 September 2026 in Exposition Park, after a build that ran years past its first target date. It is given over to storytelling as art - illustration, comics, film and the painted image side by side - rather than to a single medium, and it lands beside the Natural History Museum and the California Science Center in the city's museum quarter.

The new North Concourse at George Bush Intercontinental replaces the 1969-era flight stations with about 765,000 square feet on three levels, 22 gates for United and a 54,000-square-foot United Club, the largest in the airline's network. It is the centrepiece of the $2.5 billion Terminal B Transformation, which closed the old Terminal B lobby in January 2025.

The 16.9 sq km park is being laid out over the grounds of Riyadh's former airport, with an Art Park opening first and a Royal Arts Complex of thirteen structures, designed by the late Ricardo Bofill, arranged along a 1.5 km central boulevard. Omrania leads the design with Henning Larsen on the masterplan, and the park carries an estimated cost of SAR 72 billion.

Shanghai’s new opera house in Expo Culture Park combines three performance spaces totaling 4,200 seats. Its inaugural season runs October 17 through February 20, 2027, with 47 productions and 82 performances.

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts says Fairmont New Orleans opens on 2 November 2026 with 250 rooms and suites in 17 floors of the former Bank of New Orleans tower. It is the brand's first New Orleans hotel since the Fairmont closed after Hurricane Katrina and its 19th in the USA.

The $915 million museum on the bank of the Parramatta River opens on Saturday 7 November 2026 with five exhibitions and more than 3,000 objects, followed by a 23-day opening festival. Entry to the museum and most exhibitions is free, and everyone under 16 gets free entry to exhibitions.

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 rephased Inglewood Transit Connector begins with three mobility hubs holding more than 1,000 parking stalls, event-day bus lanes, a rebuilt Market Street and a pedestrian bridge over Florence Avenue to the Metro K Line station, all due by 2028. The automated people mover it grew out of is deferred, with the right-of-way preserved at Market and Manchester.

The first large public piece of Amtrak's phased rebuild of the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station: a restored concourse of shops and restaurants beneath the 1933 building, part of a redevelopment of nearly 500,000 square feet running to 2028.

Hilton's Waldorf Astoria London - Admiralty Arch, the 114-room hotel and residences in the Grade I-listed landmark opposite Buckingham Palace, says it will open in autumn 2026, with reservations from 1 March 2027. Clare Smyth and Daniel Boulud will run its restaurants.

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences Miami - nine stacked and cantilevered glass cubes holding nearly 100 storeys of condominiums and a 205-room hotel - is expected to reach its full 1,049 feet, making it the tallest building in Florida and the southern United States. Its superstructure passed level 85 and started the ninth and final cube in August 2026; delivery of the finished tower is set for 2028.

Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.

Five Points Development's slender 262 Fifth Avenue condo tower topped out in Manhattan's NoMad district in 2024 and is on track to open in 2026, drawing criticism for blocking classic views of the nearby Empire State Building.

The 47,000-seat, fully air-conditioned stadium Aramco is building in Al Khobar, a Populous design modelled on Gulf whirlpools, is due to open in 2026 as Al-Qadsiah FC's home and a venue for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup and the 2034 FIFA World Cup.

The 53-storey DC Tower 2 is rising beside its twin in Donau City using a jump-form climbing system, on track to finish out the district by the end of 2026.

Herzog & de Meuron's 180-metre glass wedge holds 44 floors of offices, a hotel and a restaurant on the edge of the Parc des Expositions, and is the first high-rise built inside Paris in about 40 years. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield started work at the end of 2021 and is fitting out the EUR 700 million tower for its final handover.

Auberge Collection's first London hotel, Cambridge House at 94 Piccadilly, is preparing for a February 2027 opening with 102 rooms, 24 of them suites, in the Grade I-listed former In & Out club. Jean-Louis Deniot designed the hotel and Major Food Group runs the restaurant.

NAHB's residential construction show takes over the Las Vegas Convention Center for three days as part of Design & Construction Week.

A new $2.1 billion enclosed Nissan Stadium is scheduled to hand over to the Tennessee Titans in February 2027, funded largely by public money in a bid to eventually host a Super Bowl.

The $815 million AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, a seven-storey 575,000-square-foot building north of 57th Street in Hyde Park, is Illinois' first freestanding cancer centre, with 80 inpatient beds, 90 outpatient exam rooms and dedicated imaging, infusion and clinical trial space. It pulls together cancer services currently spread across at least five buildings on the campus.

Related Midwest's 72-story North Tower, built inside the abandoned Chicago Spire foundation pit, is slated to open along the city's lakefront in 2027.

Twelve acres of fields, courts, a dog park and an arts plaza with an amphitheater beneath the Sixth Street Viaduct, on both banks of the LA River between Boyle Heights and the Arts District.

Aspirant Development's $675 million, two-tower Astra project, rebranded Arro, is expected to break ground in early 2027 on Second Avenue in downtown Phoenix. Its 541-foot north tower would be Arizona's tallest building.

The Betty Knoebel Arena, given a ceremonial groundbreaking in September 2026, is the centrepiece of a new Equestrian Center on the National Western Center campus in north Denver, paid for by the Knoebel family and the Knoebel Foundation. Plans put a 4,000-seat arena alongside a climate-controlled horse barn with close to 600 stalls.

The first phase of JFK's New Terminal One opens with its arrivals and departures halls and 14 gates, the start of a 2.6 million sq ft international terminal that will be the airport's largest.

The 2027 International Architecture Exhibition runs 8 May to 21 November in Venice, curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu under the theme 'Do Architecture'.

Berlin's Pergamonmuseum comes back in stages, and the first of them lands on 4 June 2027: the North Wing and the northern central building reopen, putting the Pergamon Altar back on public view and giving the Museum für Islamische Kunst two full floors. The museum has been under renovation since 2013 as part of the Museumsinsel master plan, and the South Wing stays shut after this - it is not expected back until around 2037.

UC San Diego lists its new Hillcrest Medical Center Renewal hospital in design development, with major construction anticipated in summer 2027. Earlier outpatient-pavilion completion and planned advance works are separate scopes.

After a decade standing unfinished as the world's tallest abandoned building, Tianjin's 597-metre Goldin Finance 117 resumed construction under a state-led rescue and is targeted to complete in 2027.

Shanghai's second-largest station after Hongqiao is being built in the bonded area beside Pudong International Airport, its high-speed station building given 15 platforms and 30 tracks. Passengers will walk roughly 250 metres between the trains and the airport.