Architectural top vs honest height
First Canadian Place is marketed at 298.1m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 289.9m. The gap between those two numbers is 8.2m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 2.8%.
In the Honest 100,First Canadian Place ranks # by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 2.8% places First Canadian Place 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 - First Canadian Place, 298.1m
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia infobox - 'Top floor: 289.9m (951 ft)'; 72-storey office tower
- note
- Tallest building in Canada since 1975 and remains tallest in Toronto