Architectural top vs honest height
Public Investment Fund Tower is marketed at 385m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 375m. The gap between those two numbers is 10.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 2.6%.
In the Honest 100,Public Investment Fund Tower ranks #39 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 2.6% places Public Investment Fund Tower 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 + HOK + Omrania project pages: 80 floors over 385m, KAFD Riyadh. Architect HOK + Omrania (NOT Foster + Partners; correction noted). Top section houses Capital Market Authority. No published top-occupied figure; estimate retained.