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Building Profile · Chicago · US

Trump International Hotel and Tower

Honest Height

340.1m

Architectural Top

423.2m

Vanity Ratio

19.6%

Floors

98

Occupied 340.1mTop 423.2m

Completed

2009

Architect

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Owner

Donald J. Trump

Architectural top vs honest height

Trump International Hotel and Tower is marketed at 423.2m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 340.1m. The gap between those two numbers is 83.1m of structure that no occupant reaches.

That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 19.6%.

In the Honest 100,Trump International Hotel and Tower ranks #71 by occupied height.

Vanity context

A Vanity Ratio of 19.6% places Trump International Hotel and Tower 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
CTBUH: highest occupied floor 1116 ft (340.1m); Wikipedia: roof 356.9m, spire 423.2m; floors 86-89 penthouses