"Crazy" John's cellphone building plans revealed
By Ryan Block 
posted October 28th 2005 11:30AM
posted October 28th 2005 11:30AM
Remember that Australian dude "Crazy" John Ilhan we
told you about who wanted to build a giant cellphone tower in Melbourne? Well, yeah, we thought he was just some
crackpot too, but it looks like dude was serious about his venture and revealed his initial building plans and design
outlines for his 400-foot testament to phallocentrism the telecommunications industry. Besides being a building
with immense architectural staying power (ahem), "Crazy" John still wants to outfit the facade with a giant screen,
keypad, and antenna, perhaps to remind everyone in ten or fifteen years just what a joke today's cellphones really
are.
[Via The Gadget
Blog]
LOL the joke is it already look dated.
Shitty Nokia black and white phone....
is it just me, or is that thing hovering in space?
About the same size as a Nokia N series
The real question is: is it trimode or not? And what about the battery life. If I can't get 2 hours off the thing screw that...I'll take my company to another building.
My lovely country, Chile, already did this:
For example...
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cee33x/QResponses/Q7Carole.htm
Yeah, here's some more lovely pictures of the architectural masterpiece that is the Santiago Cell Phone Building. http://adjwilli.phpwebhosting.com/southAmerica/viewPhoto.php?photoID=690
http://adjwilli.phpwebhosting.com/southAmerica/viewPhoto.php?photoID=709
http://adjwilli.phpwebhosting.com/southAmerica/viewPhoto.php?photoID=691
Why would anyone fund this?
Where are the city councelors in Melbourne to say HELL NO!?
New York's got the Statue if Liberty
Toronto has the CN Tower
Paris has the Eiffle Tower
Whatta you got? "Some big ugly cell phone lookin' thing"
This is going to be more of a national joke then a national monument..... but if all they want is to get people all over the world talking about Melbourne then it's already working!
Finally!, I can move out of the Motorola Brick phone building....
Hey, it could be worse. He could've made it look like the Motorola ROKR if he was a sadist.
Bloody stupid Johnson?
Bloody stupid Johnson?
phones normally dont work in lifts, will lifts work in phones?
Most buildings in your city were already built before cell phones came to be. What will happen to this building when cell phones become obsolete? It will become a monument to this guy's lack of vision.
There's no way Melbourne will allow that to be built. They don't exactly have a history of daring architectural projects, let alone stupid ones like that.
south...ur kidding right? whatabout the federation square, the new melbourne central, the god-ugly-rmit main building...etc? :p
Last year the Australian Society for Mental Health tried to get Crazy John to change the name of his stores because they were insulting to the mentally ill.... how funny was that.It got shouted down pretty quick.
As much as us Sydney-siders love to bag Melbourne, even we know that it wouldn't get built.
#10 Chris,
That comment had me laughing out loud, that's exactly the sort of thing that Bloody Stupid Johnson would come up with ;)
Hey, I think that building in the foreground is where my in-laws apartment is! There goes the freakin' view.