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Al Hamra Tower

Honest Height

368m

Architectural Top

414m

Vanity Ratio

11.1%

Floors

80

Occupied 368mTop 414m

Completed

2011

Architect

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Owner

Al Hamra Real Estate Co.

Architectural top vs honest height

Al Hamra Tower is marketed at 414m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 368m. The gap between those two numbers is 46.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 11.1%.

In the Honest 100,Al Hamra Tower ranks #46 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 11.1% places Al Hamra Tower within the moderate range. The non-occupiable structure above the highest occupied floor is significant but not unusual for a building of this height.

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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: roof 368m, 83rd floor is highest occupied (85 floors total), arch top 414m