Architectural top vs honest height
Emirates Office Tower is marketed at 355m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 240.4m. The gap between those two numbers is 114.6m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 32.3%.
In the Honest 100,Emirates Office Tower ranks #94 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 32.3% places Emirates Office Tower in the high vanity category. A substantial proportion of this building's marketed height is non-occupiable structure - the gap between what is marketed and what is usable is material.
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 - 355m to spire tip
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 240.4m to top of occupied offices
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 54F at approximately 240.4m
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: (355-240.4)/355 = 32.3% - only Bank of America Tower scores higher