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Public Investment Fund Tower

Honest Height

375m

Architectural Top

385m

Vanity Ratio

2.6%

Floors

72

Occupied 375mTop 385m

Completed

2021

Architect

SOM

Owner

Public Investment Fund (Saudi Arabia)

Architectural top vs honest height

Public Investment Fund Tower is marketed at 385m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 375m. The gap between those two numbers is 10.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 2.6%.

In the Honest 100,Public Investment Fund Tower ranks #39 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 2.6% places Public Investment Fund Tower in the near-zero vanity category. Almost all of its architectural height is occupiable - a rare outcome in tall building design.

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 (CC-BY-SA)
highest_occupied_floor_m
Wikipedia: 79 floors, 385m arch; occupied est 385×0.974