Architectural top vs honest height
Shanghai International Trade Center T1 is marketed at 370m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 355.2m. The gap between those two numbers is 14.8m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 4%.
In the Honest 100,Shanghai International Trade Center T1 ranks #55 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 4% places Shanghai International Trade Center T1 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 'Xujiahui Tower' = TBC slug (some sources label as Tower 1, others as Tower 2; 370m structure is unambiguous). 70 floors, Pelli Clarke & Partners tapered glass crown above top occupied floor. Floor-math suggests ~330-340m may be more accurate but no published figure.