Architectural top vs honest height
Shum Yip Upperhills Tower 1 is marketed at 388.1m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 379.1m. The gap between those two numbers is 9.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 2.3%.
In the Honest 100,Shum Yip Upperhills Tower 1 ranks #34 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 2.3% places Shum Yip Upperhills Tower 1 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: top floor 379.1m; arch top 388.1m