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Almas Tower

Honest Height

279.3m

Architectural Top

360m

Vanity Ratio

22.4%

Floors

68

Occupied 279.3mTop 360m

Completed

2008

Architect

NORR Group Consultants

Owner

Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC)

Architectural top vs honest height

Almas Tower is marketed at 360m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 279.3m. The gap between those two numbers is 80.7m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 22.4%.

In the Honest 100,Almas Tower ranks #90 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 22.4% places Almas Tower 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 - 360m (including 53.6m spire)
roof_height_m
Wikipedia - 306.4m
highest_occupied_floor_m
Wikipedia - highest occupied floor at 279.3m; 26.7m of mechanical crown above before spire
hat_factor_pct
Calculated: (360-279.3)/360 = 22.4%