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Iconic Tower

Honest Height

380m

Where the elevator stops

“Official” Height

393.8m

Including spires & vanity steel

Vanity Ratio

3.5%

Floors

79

Our Rank

#33

“Official” Rank

#45

Occupied 380mTop 393.8m

Completed

2023

Architect

Dar Al-Handasah Consultants

Owner

China State Construction Engineering

Architectural top vs honest height

Iconic Tower is marketed at 393.8m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 380m. The gap between those two numbers is 13.8m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 3.5%.

In the Honest 100,Iconic Tower ranks #33 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 3.5% places Iconic Tower in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.

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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 + Perkins+Will: 77 floors, 393.8m architectural with prominent obelisk-inspired sculptural crown (lotus-bud / Amun Shuti motif). Floors 1-40 office, 10 branded apartments, 30 hotel. Estimate retained but may overstate by 5-15m given prominent crown; revisit if Perkins+Will publishes a section drawing.
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