Architectural top vs honest height
Xi'an Glory International Financial Center is marketed at 350m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 336m. The gap between those two numbers is 14.0m 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,Xi'an Glory International Financial Center ranks #74 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 4% places Xi'an Glory International Financial Center in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.
Comparable buildings
Similar Vanity Ratio
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 + Schindler press release: 75 office floors over 350m; 4.4m avg floor height for Grade-A office. Tallest in northwest China; completed Aug 2022. Estimate retained.