Architectural top vs honest height
Shanghai Tower is marketed at 632m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 583.5m. The gap between those two numbers is 48.5m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 7.7%.
In the Honest 100,Shanghai Tower ranks #2 by occupied height.
Observation decks
Sky Walk 118
Floor 118 · Indoor
546m
Top of Shanghai
Floor 125 · Indoor
562m
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Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 7.7% places Shanghai Tower 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 - 632m
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 587.4m structural roof
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - floors 106-124 zone; 583.5m per buildings-seed-list.md
- observation_decks
- Wikipedia - Sky Walk 118F/546m, Top of Shanghai 125F/562m
- height_bands
- ASSUMPTION: simplified linear taper derived from published plan dimensions; actual twist not modelled in 2D