Architectural top vs honest height
Bank of China Tower is marketed at 367.4m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 288.3m. The gap between those two numbers is 79.1m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 21.5%.
In the Honest 100,Bank of China Tower ranks #89 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 21.5% places Bank of China Tower in the significant vanity range. More than one in seven metres of this building's marketed height is structural decoration nobody stands on.
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 - 367.4m to two antennae tips
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 288.3m to top of occupied offices
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 72F at approximately 288.3m
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: (367.4-288.3)/367.4 = 21.5%