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Building Profile · Nanjing · CN

Golden Eagle Tiandi Tower A

Honest Height

336m

Where the elevator stops

“Official” Height

368.1m

Including spires & vanity steel

Vanity Ratio

8.7%

Floors

77

Our Rank

#57

“Official” Rank

#71

Occupied 336mTop 368.1m

Completed

2019

Architect

Unknown

Owner

Unknown

Architectural top vs honest height

Golden Eagle Tiandi Tower A is marketed at 368.1m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 336m. The gap between those two numbers is 32.1m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 8.7%.

In the Honest 100,Golden Eagle Tiandi Tower A ranks #57 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 8.7% places Golden Eagle Tiandi Tower A 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
CTBUH-derived (Skyscraper Wiki, Wikipedia cross-reference): 'height to occupied level is 336 m (1,102 ft), while the height to tip is 368.1 m (1,208 ft)'. ~32m vanity differential makes this a Padded Pinnacle candidate.
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