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HomeHonest 100The Shard

Building Profile · London · GB

The Shard

Honest Height

244m

Architectural Top

309.6m

Vanity Ratio

21.2%

Floors

87

Occupied 244mTop 309.6m

Completed

2012

Architect

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Owner

State of Qatar / Sellar Property Group

Architectural top vs honest height

The Shard is marketed at 309.6m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 244m. The gap between those two numbers is 65.6m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 21.2%.

In the Honest 100,The Shard ranks # by occupied height.

Observation decks

Observation Deck

Floor · Outdoor

244m

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Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 21.2% places The Shard 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 - The Shard, 309.6m
highest_occupied_floor_m
Wikipedia - 'The View from The Shard viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244 metres'
note
Tallest building in the UK; glass shard design by Renzo Piano; 21.2% Vanity Ratio