Diamond Towers

Diamond Towers (French: Tours de Diamant, informally Observatory Towers) is a twin tower complex located in Downtown West, New Kensington. The complex consists of the North Tower, the South Tower, and the Diamond Plaza. The North Tower was the first building to be built in the New City region.

History
Plans to build the Diamond Towers date back to May 2020. While plans to build City State Tower had already been set, the government decided to start the New City off with a building complex, the Diamond Twin Towers, which was a cheaper way to begin as compared to building City State Tower first. Furthermore, City State Tower soon went under a major redesign and was soon forged into the current Glass Hall Tower.

Later, all New City projects were put aside temporarily to focus on maintaining the Old City. Thus, design planning only began in mid-July 2020. By the end of the July 2020, the design for the Diamond Twin Towers was finalised as two simplistic towers with square glass panels supported by reinforced steel beams and poles forming the towers' skeletons.

Building works began on 7 August 2020 and concluded quickly on the next day, 8 August 2020. The towers were only used as observatories, hence comes the informal name Observatory Towers.

Expansion & Design-Editing
Then, on 29 August 2020, the towers underwent a three-day height expansion and design-editing, which ironically, took longer than building the towers itself. New reinforced steel poles were placed between the glass panels, giving the towers a more compact look. Two new floors were also added to both towers, Floor 11 and Floor 12. Floor 12 on the North Tower became the new North Observatory and Floor 12 on the South Tower became the new reserved area for SkyLine platforms.

When SkyLine Phase 2 completes, the complex will be served by the SkyLine on Floor 12 of the South Tower.

Trivia

 * Diamond Towers Station the highest elevated station by far, beating its current second closest competitor, Heritage Park Station by three times the height.
 * The towers have no other purpose other than being observatory towers. Thus, observatory fees are extremely high, at $75 per person.
 * The North Tower of the complex was the first building to be erected in the New City.