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10-429: The building's three-sided construction makes good use of available space, yet the building's design sacrifices valuable floor space by including a massive atrium running the entire height of the building. The building's most recognizable characteristic is its shape and structure. It is most simply described as triangular (a more apt description would be a triangle with all the corners cut off), hence why one of its nicknames

20-513: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Shinjuku Mitsui Building The Shinjuku Mitsui Building ( 新宿三井ビル , Shinjuku Mitsui Biru ) is a high-rise building in Nishi-Shinjuku , Shinjuku , Tokyo . It is owned by Mitsui Fudosan . It is one of the ten tallest buildings in Tokyo , and was the tallest building in Tokyo and Japan from September 1974 to March 1978, when Sunshine 60

30-572: A restaurant and a club called "Shinjuku Mitsui Club" for current and former employees of the Mitsui Group and their relatives. There is no observation deck open to the public. Other floors occupied by tenant office space, except for the B1 to 5th floors, which house banks, restaurants, dental offices, and so on. [REDACTED] Media related to Shinjuku Mitsui Building at Wikimedia Commons Mitsui Group Too Many Requests If you report this error to

40-558: Is 'the Triangle'. Also distinctive is the visible emergency elevator, which is used to transport cargo and not everyday passengers. Construction began in November 1971 and was finished on March 6, 1974. At the time of its completion, its elevators were the fastest in the world at 540 meters per minute. It was the tallest building in Japan and Asia from March to September 1974, when it was surpassed by

50-767: The Sumitomo Building was knocked over by Godzilla , crushing and breaking the Super X. Also, in the Doraemon film Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops ( ドラえもん のび太と鉄人兵団 , Doraemon: Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan ) , the building was accidentally destroyed in the World Inside the Mirror by the huge robot Zanda Claus . This article about a Japanese building- or structure-related topic is

60-536: The nearby Shinjuku Mitsui Building . It was developed by Sumitomo Realty & Development , the real estate arm of the Sumitomo Group , and previously housed Sumitomo Realty's headquarters. A pioneering skyscraper in Shinjuku, many companies are tenants of the building, as well as several restaurants. The free observation deck on the 51st floor was closed on April 1, 2017. In the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla ,

70-529: The roof of the building to counter long period ground motion . The pendulums will reduce magnitude of building motion by half or more during a major earthquake, such as the Great East Japan earthquake of 2011. Capcom has its Tokyo offices in the building. The top 55th floor was formerly occupied by a Chinese restaurant called the Mandarin Palace, but now it houses tenant offices. The 54th floor has

80-462: The side of the building serve as seismic reinforcement and also as braces for the doors of the machine rooms at each end of every floor. The doors are 4–5 floors tall, for replacement of equipment such as air-conditioners. As in the older Keio Plaza Hotel , some fire escape exits are exposed outside the building to prevent smoke from accumulating in the case of fire. In 2013, Mitsui Fudosan and Kajima Corporation began installing six massive pendulums on

90-497: The skyscrapers in Shinjuku. It is located next to the Shinjuku Center Building , which is two meters lower but appears to be taller because its first floor is located on higher ground. It made an appearance in the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla . The building's height is 212 meters to the top of the roof, and 225 meters to the architectural top. Its entrance lobby is on the second floor. The X-shaped steel braces on

100-471: Was completed. It was built in the style of high-rise buildings that were being built in the United States in the 1970s. It is notable for the black diagonal braces on its east and west facades. At the base of the skyscraper is a sunken garden and a surprisingly large plaza. In addition to the sunken garden, there is also a roof-top garden . With its black facades, Shinjuku Mitsui Building stands out among

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