Googie architecture
20th-century American architectural style
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| 2025 | The Hollywood Premiere Motel, designed by Joyce Miller and located on Hollywood Blvd, was designated as Los Angeles' first landmark motel by becoming an LA Historic-Cultural Monument. |
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TWA Flight Center
A $100 million renovation of Terminal 5 was announced.
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Anaheim Convention Center
Scheduled to host the Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference and the Pokémon World Championships
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| August 2025 |
Cinerama Dome
The Hollywood Reporter reported that the reopening of the Cinerama Dome and ArcLight Hollywood remained unresolved.
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| August 16 2025 |
Space Needle
Flag of India raised to commemorate the country's 79th Independence Day.
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Space Needle
Featured in Final Destination 6 as the setting for an opening disaster sequence involving a catastrophic tower collapse during a tourist visit.
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| 2025 |
Tomorrowland
Planned closure of Stitch Encounter attraction in Tomorrowland.
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| 2025 |
Tomorrowland
Space Chat With Stitch attraction launched in Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland.
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| 2025 |
Anaheim Convention Center
Hosted the Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference.
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| 2025 |
Space Needle
Further renovations include adding a revolving glass floor in the restaurant, new glass on observation decks, and the first of three double-deck floor-to-ceiling glass elevators to provide larger, panoramic views.
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| 2025 | Norms Restaurant appears in the film 'One of Them Days', with Keke Palmer playing Dreux, a server at Norms who aspires to manage a franchise location. |
| April 2025 |
Chateau Bleu Motel
Demolition of the Chateau Bleu Motel begins, despite prior preservation efforts to save the historic building.
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| April 2025 |
Cinerama Dome
Reopening became uncertain, with the property manager stating it would not reopen that year and Decurion unwilling to sell or reopen the complex.
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| April 2025 | The Tucson Inn was demolished after being purchased by Pima Community College, following a legal battle, marking the end of this historic midcentury modern highway motel. |
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Cinerama Dome
Reopening of the Cinerama Dome delayed until the second quarter, with plans for redesign including restaurants and event space.
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| March 26 2025 |
Tomorrowland
Magic Kingdom announced that an unspecified original attraction would be temporarily closed in August 2025 for refurbishment, set to reopen in 2026 with new vehicles, blasters, targets, animatronics, and scenes as part of Walt Disney World Resort's 55th anniversary celebration.
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| March 11 2025 |
Dulles International Airport
Air China began serving IAD with the Boeing 747-8i from Beijing, expanding its previous twice-weekly Boeing 777-300ER service.
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| January 2025 | Three new board members - Nicole Barraza, Karla Bernal Morales, and Kristen Ann Randall - were seated, but did not intervene to stop the demolition. |
| 2024 | Norms opened its first location outside of California, in Las Vegas. |
| 2024 | The college's governing board, led by Theresa Riel, Maria Garcia, and Luis Gonzales, voted to demolish the hotel and several other historic properties. |
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Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District
Ocean View Motel replaced by Madison Resort.
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| 2024 |
Dulles International Airport
Set an all-time passenger record with 27.25 million passengers, breaking the previous record from 2005.
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| 2024 |
Tomorrowland
Completion of the Marvel area and planned opening of the Avengers Quinjet E-Ticket attraction, taking over the former Autopia circuit, as part of Stark Expo.
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| September 2024 |
Johnie's Broiler
The Bob's Big Boy statue outside the restaurant was severely damaged in a high-speed car crash.
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| August 2024 |
Dulles International Airport
Construction on Concourse E began, with an expected cost between $500 million and $800 million, seeking $230 million in grants from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.
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| April 2024 | The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Pima Community College, allowing the demolition of the Tucson Inn to proceed after the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation sought to halt the demolition. |
| April 2024 |
Tomorrowland
Oriental Land Company announced that Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters would be closing and replaced with a Wreck-It Ralph attraction.
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| January 2024 |
Dulles International Airport
Began tracking busiest domestic routes, with Denver, Colorado emerging as the top destination with 576,000 passengers served by Southwest and United airlines.
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| January 19 2024 |
Dulles International Airport
Southern Airways Express Flight 246 made a hard emergency landing on the Loudoun County Parkway just after takeoff from Dulles International Airport, with all 7 people surviving without casualties.
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| 2023 |
Dulles International Airport
Construction begins on a 100 MW solar power facility with battery and bus charging equipment, designed to be the largest airport-based solar and battery development in the U.S.
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| 2023 |
Dulles International Airport
Recorded busiest international routes, with London-Heathrow as the top international destination, serving 810,478 passengers via British Airways, United, and Virgin Atlantic airlines.
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| 2023 |
Tomorrowland
Avatar: Explore Pandora attraction closed at Shanghai Disneyland's Tomorrowland
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| 2023 |
Tomorrowland
New attraction 'Calling All Heroes: Avengers and Heroes of Tomorrow Assemble!' introduced, later redesigned to 'Stark Expo'.
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| 2023 | ORU baseball team advanced to the College World Series. |
| November 2023 |
Cinerama Dome
Reopening of the Cinerama Dome was delayed until the second quarter of 2025, with plans for redesign including restaurants and event space.
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| November 2023 |
Cinerama Dome
Reopening delayed until the second quarter of 2025 due to redesign and addition of restaurants and event space.
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| September 2023 |
Space Needle
Scheduled start of elevator replacement project, with two new double-deck passenger elevators to be installed by Otis, expected to continue through May 2025.
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| September 7 2023 |
Dulles International Airport
Capital One opened its second airport lounge at Dulles International Airport, located in the main terminal beyond the TSA PreCheck checkpoint.
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| August 2023 |
Cinerama Dome
Reopening delayed to the latter part of 2024.
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| May 2023 |
Space Needle
Galaxy Gold paint scheme replaced at a cost of $60,000 to $70,000.
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| 2022 |
Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Chapel of the Flowers erected a 'Married in Fabulous Las Vegas' sign to celebrate five million couples married in Las Vegas, launching a ten-month campaign with monthly photo contest prizes.
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| 2022 |
Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District
The Oceanview Motel was purchased and is set to be fully remodeled, with plans to rebrand it as Madison Resort Wildwood Crest.
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| 2022 |
Tomorrowland
Avatar: Explore Pandora attraction opened at Shanghai Disneyland's Tomorrowland
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| 2022 |
Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover renamed to PeopleMover.
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| 2022 |
Tomorrowland
Stitch's Interplanetary Beach Party Blast was added to Tomorrowland, bringing a new interactive entertainment experience to the area.
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| November 15 2022 |
Dulles International Airport
Washington Metro's Silver Line extension opens, providing rail access to the airport.
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| June 2022 |
Cinerama Dome
Plans were announced to reopen the Cinerama Dome and former ArcLight Hollywood under a new name, Cinerama Hollywood.
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| May 2022 |
Space Needle
Space Needle returns to 'Galaxy Gold' paint scheme for its 60th anniversary.
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| April 2022 |
Dulles International Airport
The Airport Authority published plans for a 14-gate Concourse E to replace outdoor boarding areas at Concourse A.
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