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Building Profile · Kuala Lumpur · MY

Merdeka 118

Honest Height

502.8m

Architectural Top

678.9m

Vanity Ratio

25.9%

Floors

118

Occupied 502.8mTop 678.9m

Completed

2024

Architect

Fender Katsalidis

Owner

PNB Merdeka Ventures Sdn Bhd

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.

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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