DHAKA: The United Arab Emirates has the ‘vainest’ skyscrapers in the world, a report measuring the extent of spires and other height-boosting additions to the top of buildings said on Thursday.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) said unusable space at the top of the UAE’s 19 tallest buildings was an average 19 percent of their total height, a measure it called the ‘vanity height’.

The building with the largest vanity height is the 828m Burj Khalifa in Dubai, of which 29 percent or 244m is unusable, which would rank on its own as the 11th tallest building in Europe, the CTBUH said, reports The Straits Times.

The top three was completed by the Zifeng Tower in Nanjing, China, and the Bank of America Tower in New York.

China and the United States were also second and third respectively for the average figure across all of their tall buildings.

BDST: 2049 HRS, SEPT 05, 2013
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