Architectural top vs honest height
Australia 108 is marketed at 316.7m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 312.4m. The gap between those two numbers is 4.3m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 1.4%.
In the Honest 100,Australia 108 ranks # by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 1.4% places Australia 108 in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.
Comparable buildings
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 - Australia 108, 316.7m architectural top
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 'height to floor of highest occupied floor: 312.375m' (Sky Lounge, level 100)
- note
- Tallest residential building in the Southern Hemisphere at completion