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