The Palaceside Building has appeared on the travel news site Tabiiro+ (Tabiiro Plus). It proudly tops installment 5 of the series "See it now! 'Good buildings' born in the high-growth era," titled "'Good buildings' around the Imperial Palace born in the high-growth era" = photo above.
Tabiiro+ is an information site from the electronic magazine Tabiiro, more than ten years old, that under the concept "find exciting travel info!" sends news on trip plans, spots, popular styles and the latest trends. The main target is women in their 20s and 30s. This series presents three or four buildings per neighborhood that you should see now, on the idea that "in high-growth Japan, products and architecture designed with ease and unique culture were born."
It began with series 1, "Tokyo" (August 2, New Shimbashi Building and others), then "Nakano" (August 28, Nakano Sun Plaza and others), "Asakusa" (September 25, Yuraku Building and others) and "Hokkaido" (October 30, Hokkaido Government and others). Installment 5, posted December 3, is "Around the Imperial Palace." Besides the Palaceside Building, the Science Museum and Kudan Building are introduced.
Lately quite a few books introduce buildings regarded as notable architecture, and the Palaceside Building is often featured; this series too seems to spotlight buildings that can be called "classics."
The Palaceside Building section, after the opening exterior, explains with photos the large west-entrance canopy (commonly the "umbrella"), the east and west core (cylinder) elevator halls, and the Stairway of Dreams linking the first-floor and B1 atrium = photo left. It opens, "The huge Palaceside Building, completed in 1966, houses The Mainichi Newspapers Tokyo head office, so it has a printing plant in the basement (another plant is now in operation). Directly connected to Takebashi Station, anyone can walk in easily and, over lunch or drinks at a tenant restaurant, take a long look at all sorts of details — a pleasure," and goes on: "Part of the exterior uses special brick developed for the Palaceside Building," "the elevator halls are like a space station," "the stairs linking the first floor and basement have handrail designs that glitter like a galaxy — cool."