Architectural top vs honest height
270 Park Avenue is marketed at 423m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 407m. The gap between those two numbers is 16.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 3.8%.
In the Honest 100,270 Park Avenue ranks #22 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 3.8% places 270 Park Avenue in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.
Comparable buildings
In context
Sources and methodology
Height data sourced from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA). Vanity Ratio calculated as (Architectural Top - Highest Occupied Floor) / Architectural Top. See the full methodology.
Per-field source notes
- architectural_top_m
- Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA)
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia: 60 floors, 423m arch; Foster+Partners decorative pinnacle above occ floors; occupied est 423×0.963