The 40 Million High-Rise Mobile Phone Building
October 28, 2005 by colbert low
Filed under Announcements, Cellphones, Household, Uncategorized
Here’s a $40 million Australian building that’s shape like a mobile phone that will knock your socks off and will be the hottest address in town. Check it out.
MILLIONAIRE mobile phone salesman “Crazy” John Ilhan has unveiled his radical design for a $40 million tower in the shape of a phone. The distinctive 120m highrise in City Rd, Southbank, would house his multi-million-dollar communications empire and 166 luxury apartments. Mr Ilhan, who put forward his “phone tower” plan earlier this year, hopes his distinctive building will become a Melbourne landmark.
The 40 Million High-Rise Mobile Phone Building source
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2005/10/010408.htm
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000737065535/
Wow I wouldn’t have thought someone would make the same mistake as this supremely ugly building in Bangkok (see an image here: http://www.jasminetower.com/)
Designed when cell phones were the size of a house brick and one generation on from being attached to a car battery (for portability) it really hasn’t stood the test of time (i.e. 9 years since it was finished)