Diamond of Istanbul is the tallest building under construction in Istanbul, Turkey, being built in the city's Maslak central business district. It is also the country's first steel skyscraper. When completed, it will rise 53 floors above ground level and reach an above-ground height of 270 meters; thus surpassing the current tallest skyscraper in Istanbul, the 261 m (54 floors) Istanbul Sapphire in Levent.
Its design, by Dome Architecture of Istanbul, comprises three steel wings connected to the central (concrete) elevator core. The three wings (towers) will house a luxury hotel (the tallest tower), A-class offices (the second-tallest tower), and rental skyscraper apartments (the shortest tower.) The tallest of the three wings (the hotel tower) will have an overall total of 53 floors above ground (three retail facility floors, 48 hotel tower floors and two panoramic restaurant floors above the hotel floors, at heights of 209.10m and 213.10m, respectively), and reach an overall structural height of 270m from street level. The steel wings rise from the common podium of a shopping mall comprising five floors - three above-ground and two below. The complex also has a five-floor parking garage situated in the bottom-most basement floors of the building (with a total of eight basement floors below ground level.)
The panoramic restaurant on the top-most floor will offer unobstructed views of both entrances to the Bosphorus strait and the dining experience at one of the tallest man-made points in Istanbul and Turkey.
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