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Building Profile · Hong Kong · HK

Central Plaza

Honest Height

299m

Architectural Top

373.9m

Vanity Ratio

20%

Floors

78

Occupied 299mTop 373.9m

Completed

1992

Architect

Ng Chun Man and Associates, Dennis Lau

Owner

Sino Land, Sun Hung Kai Properties

Architectural top vs honest height

Central Plaza is marketed at 373.9m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 299m. The gap between those two numbers is 74.9m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 20%.

In the Honest 100,Central Plaza ranks #84 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 20% places Central Plaza 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 - 373.9m to spire tip
roof_height_m
Wikipedia - 299m to top of occupied floors
highest_occupied_floor_m
Wikipedia - 78F at approximately 299m
hat_factor_pct
Calculated: (373.9-299)/373.9 = 20.0%