Supertall Skyscrapers Fudge their Height with Spires
The Council on Tall Buildings and Habitat (CTBUH) has investigated a growing trend in buildings installing add-ons that do not include usable space in order to achieve “super-tall” status.
“We noticed in Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, that a fair amount of the top of the building seemed to be an unoccupied spire,” the organisation said in a report. “This prompted us to investigate the increasing trend towards extreme spires and other extensions of tall buildings that do not enclose usable space…”
The Council has now coined the term “Vanity Height” which is defined as “the distance between a skyscraper’s highest occupiable floor and its architectural top, as determined by CTBUH Height Criteria.”
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