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Building Profile · Melbourne · AU

Eureka Tower

Honest Height

292.3m

Architectural Top

297.3m

Vanity Ratio

1.7%

Floors

92

Occupied 292.3mTop 297.3m

Completed

2006

Architect

Fender Katsalidis

Owner

Eureka Funds Management

Architectural top vs honest height

Eureka Tower is marketed at 297.3m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 292.3m. The gap between those two numbers is 5.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 1.7%.

In the Honest 100,Eureka Tower ranks # by occupied height.

Observation decks

Observation Deck

Floor · Indoor

285m

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Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 1.7% places Eureka Tower in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.

Comparable buildings

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 - Eureka Tower, 297.3m
highest_occupied_floor_m
Wikipedia infobox - 'height to floor of highest occupied floor: 292.3m' (level 89 event/restaurant space above obs deck at 285m)
note
Southern Hemisphere's tallest residential building at completion; Eureka Skydeck 88 at 285m on floor 88