Architectural top vs honest height
Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is marketed at 530m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 496m. The gap between those two numbers is 34.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 6.4%.
In the Honest 100,Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre ranks #7 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 6.4% places Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre 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 - 530m
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 496m (no public observation deck)
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 111F at approximately 496m
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: (530-496)/530 = 6.4%