Architectural top vs honest height
International Land-Sea Center is marketed at 458.2m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 429.8m. The gap between those two numbers is 28.4m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 6.2%.
In the Honest 100,International Land-Sea Center ranks #12 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 6.2% places International Land-Sea Center 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
- Wikipedia infobox: 'Top Floor: 429.8 m (1,410 ft)'. KPF + P&T Group; topped out June 2022 in Chongqing. 458.2m architectural top includes ~28m crown above top occupied floor.