Architectural top vs honest height
China Merchants Bank Global HQ is marketed at 393m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 372m. The gap between those two numbers is 21.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 5.3%.
In the Honest 100,China Merchants Bank Global HQ ranks #35 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 5.3% places China Merchants Bank Global HQ within the moderate range. The non-occupiable structure above the highest occupied floor is significant but not unusual for a building of this height.
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
- Foster + Partners project page: 'a dramatic observatory garden near the crown... arranged around a quadruple height atrium'. 393m architectural / 77 floors; explicit crown architecture above top office level. Estimate revised down from 375.5.