Architectural top vs honest height
One Vanderbilt is marketed at 427m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 310.9m. The gap between those two numbers is 116.1m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 27.2%.
In the Honest 100,One Vanderbilt ranks #81 by occupied height.
Observation decks
SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
Floor 91 · Indoor
311m
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Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 27.2% places One Vanderbilt 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 - 427m to spire tip
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 310.9m to top of occupied floors
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 73F at 310.9m
- observation_decks
- Official summitov.com - SUMMIT at 91F / 310m
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: (427-310.9)/427 = 27.2% - 116.1m of decorative spire