Diamond as a building material

So lots of Sci-fi works use mono-crystalline diamond as a wonder material used to build all sorts of impressive and in some cases seemingly impossible structures, I'd like to ask about the science of this particular assertion that diamonds are the building material that makes anything possible. Of particular concern for me is that while diamond is hard it's not particularly wear resistant and I'm really not sure it's as hard, especially in tension, as people seem to think. So please lay some numbers on me, in context, about what diamond is actually capable of in the field of construction.

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