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Makkah Royal Clock Tower Completes
Makkah Royal Clock Tower, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE13.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the tower, "constructed at an estimated cost of USD $16BN," was completed in 2012.The $16BN Makkah Royal Clock Tower, holding the world's largest clock face and the highest occupied space on Earth at the time, was completed overlooking Islam's holiest site.$16B0.66One Wall Street Completes Largest NYC Office-to-Apartment Conversion
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the building obtained its certificate of temporary occupancy, and the first residents were scheduled to move in the following week."Macklowe Properties finished converting the Art Deco One Wall Street office tower into 566 apartments, the largest office-to-residential conversion completed in New York City.0.65Emaar 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.0.64Jewel Changi Airport Opens in Singapore
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE7.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Jewel Changi Airport[3] officially opened to the public on Wednesday 17 April 2019."The Jewel, a 3,500-tonne glass dome housing the world's tallest indoor waterfall and thousands of trees, opened at Singapore's Changi Airport, fulfilling a vision for a garden city dating to the 1960s.S$1.7B0.63JPMorgan Chase Opens Its New 270 Park Avenue Headquarters
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SCHEDULED78% CONFIDENCEin 6.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per Dubai's Crown Prince and the source[1]: "Phase 1 scheduled to begin operations in 2032."The first phase of Dubai's US$35BN Al Maktoum International Airport expansion, ultimately sized to handle more than 260 million passengers a year and become the world's largest airport.$35B0.62The Henderson Skyscraper Opens on Hong Kong's Priciest Site
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE2.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Construction began in 2019 and was completed in 2024".The Henderson, a curved Zaha Hadid-designed office tower on the world's most expensive building site, was completed in mid-2024 in Hong Kong's Central district.0.62Sany Opens Its Lingang Excavator Factory Near Shanghai
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE14.1 years agoMultiple contemporaneous trade-press reports (Equipment World, Construction Equipment Guide[3], OEM Off-Highway) independently give 24 August 2012 as the opening date of the Lingang factory.Sany opened its $818 million Lingang facility near Shanghai, calling it the world's largest excavator factory. Automated underground tunnels move structures and components through 5.9 million square feet of production space.0.62Chongqing East, the World's Biggest Train Station
Chongqing East railway station, Nan'an District, Chongqing, China
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the Chongqing East railway station opened to passengers on 27 June 2025."China opened Chongqing East, a 1.22 million sq m high-speed rail hub roughly six times the size of New York's Grand Central, as the newest showpiece of its 50,000km high-speed rail network.0.62UPS Worldport Opens as the World's Largest Package Sorting Hub
ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCE24.1 years agoUPS and trade press (PARCEL Industry[2], FreightWaves) date the $1 billion Worldport expansion's completion to September 2002, but no source gives the exact calendar day.UPS finished a three-phase, $1 billion expansion of its Louisville air hub in September 2002, doubling it to 4 million square feet and creating Worldport, the world's largest fully automated package-handling facility.0.61The Spiral Opens at Hudson Yards
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Spiral — a 2.8-million-square-foot office skyscraper located at 66 Hudson Blvd. in Manhattan — has officially opened," reported in November 2023.Bjarke Ingels Group's The Spiral, a 314-metre office tower wrapped in cascading green terraces, opened at 66 Hudson Boulevard as Pfizer's new global headquarters.0.61Jeddah 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.$1.2B0.61
