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213: 20: 57:, is officially 828 meters tall, but its highest usable floor is 585m above ground. Therefore, its vanity height is 244 meters or 29% of the building's total height. Without this vanity height, the Burj Khalifa would still be the tallest building in the world, but only exceeding the Shanghai Tower's highest usable floor by 2 meters. 64:, could be over 1,000 meters tall, but its highest floor is planned to be 630m above ground. The top 370m (equivalent to an 85-story building), or 37% of the building's total height, will be unusable. When vanity height is excluded, the height progression of the world's tallest buildings looks much more modest. 23:
Comparison of the vanity height (as defined as the difference between the pinnacle height and the height to the floor of the highest occupied top floor) of some buildings which have been the world's tallest
34:(CTBUH) as the height difference between a skyscraper's pinnacle and the highest usable floor (usually observatory, office, restaurant, retail or hotel/residential). Because the CTBUH ranks the 105: 254: 194: 31: 109: 212: 131: 67:
The CTBUH requires a structure's vanity height to be under 50% to be defined as a "building." Otherwise, it is considered a
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by height to pinnacle, a number of buildings appear higher in the rankings than they otherwise would due to extremely long
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were named the world's tallest buildings in 1998, despite having a roof 63.4 m (208 ft) lower than that of the
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Height difference between a skyscraper's pinnacle and its highest usable floor
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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
world's tallest buildings
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Petronas Towers
Willis Tower
Burj Khalifa
Jeddah Tower
communications tower
List of tallest buildings



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"Vanity height: how much space in skyscrapers is unoccupiable?"
"Shanghai Tower - the Skyscraper Center"
"Vanity Height: How Much of a Skyscraper is Usable Space?"
History of the world's tallest buildings
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