Architectural top vs honest height

Il Primo Tower is marketed at 355.6m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 345m. The gap between those two numbers is 10.6m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 3%.

In the Honest 100,Il Primo Tower ranks #61 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 3% places Il Primo Tower 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

Shandong International Financial Center

Jinan · CN

3.0%

Nanjing Financial City Phase II C T1

Nanjing · CN

3.0%

First Canadian Place

Toronto · CA

2.8%

Similar Honest Height

China Resources Tower

Shenzhen · CN

345m

Huiyun Center

Shenzhen · CN

344.8m

Ping An Finance Center Tower 1 (Jinan)

Jinan · CN

345.6m

In context

CityTallest buildings in Dubai →CountryTallest buildings in AE →

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: 'The tower stands at 356 m (1,168 ft) tall with 79 floors'. Burj Khalifa District residential, no rooftop amenity confirmed; floor-math (79 floors x ~3.6m + lobby + mech) caps top occupied near 345m.