Architectural top vs honest height
China Resources Tower is marketed at 392.5m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 345m. The gap between those two numbers is 47.5m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 12.1%.
In the Honest 100,China Resources Tower ranks #64 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 12.1% places China Resources 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.
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: top occupied floor 345m ('Spring Bamboo' tapering design); arch top 392.5m