Savoy Opens Above the Esplanade · Chronopin

Savoy Opens Above the Esplanade · Chronopin

Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk
Tour Triangle Is Delivered at Porte de Versailles
1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 15th arrondissement, Paris, FranceUnibail-Rodamco-Westfield
Starts 01/01/2027DELAYED1 day late40% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysFrance 3's site visit reports the tower is "au niveau du 35e etage... pour une livraison finale debut 2027" - final delivery in early 2027, a season rather than a date.^[1]
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.
€700M
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Café Tortoni Opens on Avenida de Mayo
829 Avenida de Mayo, Monserrat, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCafé Tortoni
Starts 12/31/1858ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE167.7 years agoWikipedia^[1] gives the year only - "First opened in 1858 by a French immigrant" - with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.
Café Tortoni first opened in 1858, started by a French immigrant who named it after a Paris cafe, and became the room where Buenos Aires argued about itself - Borges, Gardel and Rubinstein among the regulars whose likenesses now sit at its tables. It still trades on Avenida de Mayo with its original marble, mirrors and tango cellar.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Café Gerbeaud Opens on Vörösmarty Square
Gerbeaud Confectionary, 7-8, Vörösmarty square, Lipótváros, 5th district, Budapest, Central Hungary, 1051, HungaryCafé Gerbeaud
Starts 12/31/1858ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE167.7 years agoThe article states it was "opened in 1858" and gives no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]
The coffeehouse on Vörösmarty tér opened in 1858 and grew into one of the largest and grandest in Europe, its rooms panelled and chandeliered on a scale that belongs to the Habsburg city. It gave its name to the Gerbeaud slice and remains the fixture by which Budapest's café tradition is measured.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Eatrenalin Opens at Europa-Park With Floating Chairs
Eatrenalin, Ellenweg, Rust, VVG der Stadt Ettenheim, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, 77977, DeutschlandEuropa-Park
Starts 11/04/2022CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE3.9 years agoEuropa-Park's own announcement of 26 October 2022 names the day a week ahead: "On 4th November 2022, the unique gastronomic event concept 'Eatrenalin' will open in Rust". EuroAmusement Professional's January 2023 follow-up confirms it happened - "Since November 4, 2022, the new Eatrenalin experience restaurant at Europa-Park in Rust has welcomed lovers of culinary arts" - and Wikipedia^[3] gives the same date.
Europa-Park opens a restaurant built like a dark ride. Guests are carried through eight themed rooms on patented 320-kilogram Floating Chairs while an eight-course menu is served, about a hundred minutes from the lounge to the bar.
$195.00
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Louvre Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Starts 11/11/2017CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Friday marks five years since Louvre^[2] Abu Dhabi welcomed the first members of the public" (published 11 Nov 2022).
Jean Nouvel's dome-topped museum, the first Louvre outpost outside France, opens to the public five years behind its original schedule.
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Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk
Shanghai Grand Opera House Opens on the Huangpu River
Expo Culture Park, Houtan, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Grand Theatre Arts Centre
Starts 10/17/2026SCHEDULED 75% CONFIDENCEin 24 daysPudong's^[1] English government news page says the "Shanghai Grand Opera House will open on Oct 17 on the east bank of the Huangpu River", a fixed announced date.
The 146,000-square-metre building in Expo Culture Park, designed by ECADI with Snohetta as a spiralling Chinese folding fan, holds the 2,000-seat Harmony Hall, the 1,200-seat Soar Theatre and the 1,000-seat Open Stage, 4,200 seats in all. The opening season runs 47 productions and 82 performances through 20 February 2027.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Sydney Opera House Officially Opens
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW, Australia
Starts 10/20/1973CONFIRMED 83% 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.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Crown Sydney Opens at Barangaroo
Crown Sydney, Wulugul Walk, Barangaroo, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCrown Resorts
Starts 12/28/2020CONFIRMED 84% 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$2.2B
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Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk
Olympia Opens to the Public After Its Kensington Rebuild
Olympia, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London, EnglandYoo Capital
Starts 06/15/2026CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE100 days agoOlympia's^[1] own press release, headed "The all-new Olympia opens", gives 15 June 2026 as the opening day of the transformed destination.
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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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Canlis Opens Above Lake Union
CanlisCanlis, 2576, Aurora Avenue North, Fremont, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98109, United States
Starts 12/31/1950ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE75.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - established 1950 - so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]
Peter Canlis opened his restaurant in 1950 on the slope above Lake Union, in a post-and-beam pavilion of glass and stone that became a landmark of north-west modernism, and it has stayed in the family. Its kimono-clad service and copper-fired charcoal grill were both unusual for an American dining room of the period.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
One Vanderbilt Opens Beside Grand Central
1 Vanderbilt Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY 10017SL Green Realty…
Starts 09/14/2020CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "One Vanderbilt was formally opened with a ceremony three days later, on September 14."
One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-foot supertall office tower beside Grand Central Terminal, formally opened in Midtown Manhattan.
$3.3B
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Europa-Park Opens in Rust, Germany
Europa-Park-Straße 2, 77977 Rust, GermanyEuropa-Park
Starts 07/12/1975CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE51.2 years agoEuropa-Park's own history and IAAPA's^[2] 50th-anniversary retrospective both give July 12, 1975 as the park's opening date.
The Mack family opened Europa-Park, a 16-hectare amusement park built around European-themed lands, in the German town of Rust. It has since grown into continental Europe's second-most-visited theme park.
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