Architectural top vs honest height
Petronas Tower 2 is marketed at 451.9m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 375m. The gap between those two numbers is 76.9m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 17%.
In the Honest 100,Petronas Tower 2 ranks #37 by occupied height.
Observation decks
Skybridge (41F)
Floor 41 · Indoor
170m
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Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 17% places Petronas Tower 2 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 - 451.9m (identical to Tower 1)
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 375m
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 88F at approximately 375m
- observation_decks
- Wikipedia - Skybridge at 41F / 170m (shared with Tower 1)
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: 17.0% (identical to Tower 1)