Architectural top vs honest height
Lakhta Center is marketed at 462m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 357m. The gap between those two numbers is 105.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 22.8%.
In the Honest 100,Lakhta Center ranks #51 by occupied height.
Observation decks
Panoramic Terrace
Floor 86 · Indoor
357m
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Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 22.8% places Lakhta Center 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 - 462m to spire tip
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 357m to top of occupied floors
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 87F at approximately 357m (panoramic terrace level)
- observation_decks
- Wikipedia - 86F panoramic terrace at 357m
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: (462-357)/462 = 22.8% - 105m of spire above occupied zone