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Q1

Honest Height

235m

Where the elevator stops

“Official” Height

322.5m

Including spires & vanity steel

Vanity Ratio

27.1%

Floors

80

Our Rank

Pending

“Official” Rank

#96

Occupied 235mTop 322.5m

Completed

2005

Architect

SDG (Sunland Design Group)

Owner

Sunland Group

Architectural top vs honest height

Q1 is marketed at 322.5m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 235m. The gap between those two numbers is 87.5m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 27.1%.

In the Honest 100,Q1 ranks # by occupied height.

Observation decks

Observation Deck

Floor · Indoor

230m

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Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 27.1% places Q1 in the significant vanity range. More than one in seven metres of this building's marketed height is structural decoration nobody stands on.

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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 - Q1, 322.5m to spire tip
highest_occupied_floor_m
Wikipedia infobox - 'Top floor: 235m'; SkyPoint observation deck at 230m (floor 77) is below the highest residential top floor at 235m
note
World's tallest residential building at completion 2005; 27.1% Vanity Ratio - large spire above residential top
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