Thursday, August 4, 2011

A College in disguise

.We were returning from a visit to a knitwear factory at Tiruppur near Coimbatore. While we were about 10/12 kilometres away from our destination, a ship like structure became visible from a distance. My nephew who too was attracted, started shouting ship, ship. I protested, no It can’t be a ship, you don’t have a Sea here. He was not to be subdued. He promptly said, the Tsunami might have brought it here. Again I asked, then where is the Sea. He readily answered,  it was taken away by the Tsunami.

I took a photograph from that distance and when we were closing in, I got the vehicle stopped for further exploration. The structure turned out to be a College of Marine Engineering of Coimbatore. The photographs are appended.
 
                 

25 comments:

  1. very interesting! there is a similar building here near bbay, but i cant remember what it was!

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  2. Looks interesting! Thanks for visiting my blog!

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  3. Yes interesting. I have been seeing this building for the last one year. You have captured it beautifully in the camera. Some day I will show it to the director of the college.


    Sreenivasan

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  4. Hello , I saw your comment on Balachandran's post about friends. And I'm here now. The place you mentioned , Tiruppur was a sort of second home for me for twenty years till last December 31 st. Have bitter and good memories of the town.

    Your little statement about having lost your best friend is solemn.

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  5. Thats very interesting and creative indeed!!!
    Well captured, Thanks for sharing...
    Have a great day:)

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  6. Thats very interesting and creative indeed!!!
    Well captured, Thanks for sharing...
    Have a great day:)

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  7. Interesting idea..and nice snaps..!

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  8. I enjoyed your post.
    Good pictures of that college, "a college in disguise"
    Indeed!

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  9. Wow !Fun architecture ,i really loved the idea .Thanks for sharing the pictures .

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  10. thanks for sharing ....



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  12. Marine Engineering? Maybe they have ship simulators inside the big ship! Good pic, Sir!

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  13. oh my god..it does look like a real ship from a distance!!!
    what imagination of architects and engineers who built it!!!

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  14. Beautifully built and very apt too. You are lucky to have been there to photograph it. We wouldn't have even known about Marine engineering college in Thirupur. Very nice pictures.

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  15. Simply beautifully captured shots...lovely!

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  16. Hi P.N.Subramanian! So, We, The People who are not in holidays, keep the blogosphere alive... ;)

    Amazing shots and building!! Have a wonderful weekend!!

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  17. Hello PNS,

    Surprising, the college almost looks like a ship and very apt for its name. I wonder who conceived and designed it. Lovely.

    Best wishes,
    Joseph

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  18. That looks like the right shape for the marine engineering college.

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  19. Very attractive view Sir! Nice posting .

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  20. Oh! nice presentation in a different style.
    Liked it very much.Good photographs

    Your comments inspire me a lot.
    Please,find time to visit my blog.

    Many many good wishes for Krisn Janmashtmi.

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  21. very interesting looking building..
    the architect must have found it difficult getting the local workers to do the work in this non traditional way!!

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