Architectural top vs honest height
JW Marriott Marquis Dubai Tower 1 is marketed at 355.4m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 298.1m. The gap between those two numbers is 57.3m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 16.1%.
In the Honest 100,JW Marriott Marquis Dubai Tower 1 ranks #85 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 16.1% places JW Marriott Marquis Dubai Tower 1 in the significant vanity range. More than one in seven metres of this building's marketed height is structural decoration nobody stands on.
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 - 355.4m (including 57.3m spire)
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 298.1m
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - highest occupied floor at 298.1m
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: (355.4-298.1)/355.4 = 16.1%