Architectural top vs honest height
Guiyang International Financial Center T1 is marketed at 401m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 385m. The gap between those two numbers is 16.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 4%.
In the Honest 100,Guiyang International Financial Center T1 ranks #30 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 4% places Guiyang International Financial Center T1 in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.
Comparable buildings
Similar Vanity Ratio
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: 79 floors, 401m architectural; tallest in southwestern China; completed 2020. Hotel floors 1-40, office above. No published top-occupied figure.