Architectural top vs honest height
Merdeka 118 is marketed at 678.9m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 502.8m. The gap between those two numbers is 176.1m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 25.9%.
In the Honest 100,Merdeka 118 ranks #5 by occupied height.
Observation decks
View At 118
Floor 116 · Indoor
519m
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Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 25.9% places Merdeka 118 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 - 678.9m
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 518.2m structural roof (below spire)
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- buildings-seed-list.md - 502.8m (highest office floor); observation deck at 519m is above
- observation_decks
- Wikipedia - View At 118, floor 116, approximately 519m
- height_bands
- ASSUMPTION: simplified taper; actual faceted crown not modelled precisely