Architectural top vs honest height
Central Park Tower is marketed at 472.4m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 431.9m. The gap between those two numbers is 40.5m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 8.6%.
In the Honest 100,Central Park Tower ranks #15 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 8.6% places Central Park Tower within the moderate range. The non-occupiable structure above the highest occupied floor is significant but not unusual for a building of this height.
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 - 472.4m to mechanical spire
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 431.9m to roof
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 98F penthouse at approximately 431.9m
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: (472.4-431.9)/472.4 = 8.6%