The King does not live at Buckingham Palace and will not: Clarence House stays his London home for the rest of the reign. What the palace is instead, and what the East Wing opening of 2024 made visible for the first time in 175 years.
Dippy left the main hall in 2017 and is on loan in Coventry until February 2027; a blue whale skeleton hangs in its place and the museum's gardens reopened in July 2024.
The December 2024 reopening and how to get in free, the towers' new one-way circuit of 424 steps, the spire that was Viollet-le-Duc's rather than medieval, the bells and the organ, the twenty-eight kings of Judah and their rediscovered heads, and the contested new windows.
The Great Court opened in 2000 in the courtyard the library had filled until 1997, and the question of where the Parthenon sculptures belong is still open.
The Hall of Mirrors and the two events older accounts omit, the real fountain and estate figures, Le Notre's gardens, the ticketed fountain shows, Trianon, the equestrian academy, and a road closure running to 2027.
Only the Coronation Spoon survives from the medieval regalia; everything else in the Jewel House was made for Charles II in 1661 or later, and the display was rebuilt in May 2023.
In Oak Park, not Chicago. Wright built the house at twenty-two on a loan from Louis Sullivan, added the playroom and the chain-hung drafting room, and left in 1909 — which is the year the restoration returns the building to.
The Sears Tower until 2009, the world's tallest building until 1996, and nine square tubes bundled together rather than one. The Ledge, its glass boxes added in 2009, is missing from every older description.
The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba: begun as the Great Mosque in 785, a consecrated Catholic cathedral since 1236, with its mihrab, its Renaissance nave and a contested ownership.
Jørn Utzon resigned in February 1966 and never returned to Australia, so the architect never saw the finished building — the 1999 re-engagement produced written design principles from Denmark, not a homecoming. The shells are tiled concrete rather than granite, the tiles are not self-cleaning, and 496 state lotteries paid the bill.
The aquarium in the lower floors of County Hall opened in 1997 and has carried the Sea Life name since 2009. Its gentoo penguins are to move to Birmingham.
