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Elite Residence

Honest Height

374m

Architectural Top

380.5m

Vanity Ratio

1.7%

Floors

87

Occupied 374mTop 380.5m

Completed

2012

Architect

Norr Group Consultants

Owner

Tameer Holdings Investment LLC

Architectural top vs honest height

Elite Residence is marketed at 380.5m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 374m. The gap between those two numbers is 6.5m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 1.7%.

In the Honest 100,Elite Residence ranks #41 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 1.7% places Elite Residence 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: roof 380.5m, no spire (residential tower); highest occ est 380.5×0.983