Architectural top vs honest height
Chrysler Building is marketed at 318.9m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 265m. The gap between those two numbers is 53.9m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 16.9%.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 16.9% places Chrysler Building 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
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- Wikipedia: Chrysler Building
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- Emporis (archived)
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- CTBUH pre-rebrand