Palaceside Building is featured in High-Rise Buildings Made Easy, published in December 2014 ＝photo below: cover
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Publisher Gihyo is known for technical books. Its "Made Easy" mechanism-illustrated series explains fields from basics; this is the latest volume. Related titles include Seismic Control Made Easy and Insulation & Soundproofing Made Easy.
Authors include architectural historian Taro Igarashi (Tohoku University professor) and three others, explaining multifaceted aspects of "high-rise buildings essential to modern cities." Chapters cover basics, construction, demolition, and case studies.
Palaceside Building appears in Chapter 5 on the meaning of high-rises, alongside Roppongi Hills, Yokohama Landmark Tower, Abeno Harukas, Kasumigaseki Building, Tokyo Tower, Tokyo Skytree, Todai-ji Great Buddha Hall, and recent supertalls abroad—under "A Masterwork Born of Height Limits," with photos and diagrams over two pages ＝top photo.
"...Known as a masterwork of the transition from height limits to floor-area ratio controls... composed of two offset horizontal rectangular volumes and two vertical white cylindrical cores at their ends. The mechanical facade of fixed glass, horizontal eaves, downspouts, and drip edges reflects changing light with rich expression..."
Think Palaceside Building isn't a high-rise? It actually qualifies. As noted in this blog on June 7, 2013:
Fire Service Act Article 8-2 defines buildings over 31 meters as high-rises—roughly 10+ floors. Palaceside Building's high ceilings make the nine-story section about 37 meters; the east and west elevator cylinders exceed 50 meters. The 31-meter line
matches fire-ladder reach. The old Marunouchi Building completed February 1923 ＝photo left, April 1926 was 100 shaku (31 m); when the Imperial Palace area became a scenic district in 1933, eave height followed Marunouchi Building, and after it survived the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, building height was capped at 31 m for seismic reasons—a limit that continued postwar.