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HomeHonest 100Wuhan Greenland Center

Building Profile · Wuhan · CN

Wuhan Greenland Center

Honest Height

470m

Where the elevator stops

“Official” Height

476m

Including spires & vanity steel

Vanity Ratio

1.3%

Floors

101

Our Rank

#11

“Official” Rank

#14

Occupied 470mTop 476m

Completed

2023

Architect

Greenland Group (proprietary)

Owner

Greenland Group

Architectural top vs honest height

Wuhan Greenland Center is marketed at 476m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 470m. The gap between those two numbers is 6.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 1.3%.

In the Honest 100,Wuhan Greenland Center ranks #11 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 1.3% places Wuhan Greenland Center 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: 101 floors plus glazed dome/crown above floor 101; floors 95-100 observation deck, floor 101 helistop/broadcast/maintenance. AS+GG / Thornton Tomasetti. 476m architectural likely includes substantial dome above floor 101; estimate may be 30-50m too high but no firm replacement figure available.
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