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Building Profile · Guangzhou · CN

The Pinnacle

Honest Height

264.7m

Architectural Top

350.3m

Vanity Ratio

24.4%

Floors

60

Occupied 264.7mTop 350.3m

Completed

2012

Architect

Unknown

Owner

Unknown

Architectural top vs honest height

The Pinnacle is marketed at 350.3m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 264.7m. The gap between those two numbers is 85.6m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 24.4%.

In the Honest 100,The Pinnacle ranks #93 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 24.4% places The Pinnacle 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 (CC-BY-SA)
highest_occupied_floor_m
Wikipedia: highest occupied 264.7m; large spire to 350.3m arch top