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City Tower 1

Honest Height

344m

Where the elevator stops

“Official” Height

358m

Including spires & vanity steel

Vanity Ratio

3.9%

Floors

94

Our Rank

#66

“Official” Rank

#80

Occupied 344mTop 358m

Completed

2025

Architect

Unknown

Owner

Unknown

Architectural top vs honest height

City Tower 1 is marketed at 358m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 344m. The gap between those two numbers is 14.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 3.9%.

In the Honest 100,City Tower 1 ranks #66 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 3.9% places City Tower 1 in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.

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 / SkyscraperPage / Pelli Clarke & Partners: architectural top contested across sources (358m / 362.8m / 365m). 93-94 floors residential, Pelli design. Handover June 2026. Estimate retained; arch_top itself low-confidence pending completion specs.
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