Palaceside Building appears in the latest issue (February 2016) of the women's fashion magazine SPUR (Shueisha). As in the photo above, a model stands on the rooftop garden with a bewitching air.

 SPUR is a women's fashion magazine (published on the 23rd of each month), classified as a mode title and known for strong coverage of European luxury brands, seasonal collection shows and the latest trend items (so says Wikipedia). ???

 In any case, it is rare for this building to be featured in a women's magazine.

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 Let us look at the pages. The cover = photo right = looks like this; we were included in a feature = photo below = titled "Beautiful Tokyo Architecture and Me." Here is the opening text of the feature.

Twentieth-century modernist architecture was born from a movement that sought a style based on rationality, in contrast to historicist architecture.

It was an ambition to create a new standard for a new age.

Contemporary fashion, too, seeks the next standard.

The energy to step beyond the familiar toward the future is the driving force of mode.

Set against Tokyo's modernist architecture, fashion's new challenge begins to move.

 Somehow it makes sense — or rather, that is how it feels. Cool, isn't it?

 So, starting with Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (Ueno, completed 1961),

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Meguro Ward Office (1966), Tsuchiura Kamejō-tei (Shinagawa, 1935), Institut français du Japon – Tokyo (Shinjuku, 1951), University Seminar House (Hachiōji, 1965), Sōgetsu Hall (Minato, 1977), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa, 1938) — the same model appears in various outfits at each. Palaceside Building (1966) closes the ten-page spread. The brand is ALEXANDER McQUEEN.

 As an aside, look closely — the skirt is sheer. (Rest assured, she is wearing something underneath.)