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 444m. The gap between those two numbers is 14.2m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 3.1%.
In the Honest 100,International Land-Sea Center ranks #12 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 3.1% places International Land-Sea Center in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.
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+CTBUH: 98 floors, 458.2m arch; occupied est 458.2×0.969