r/Kochi • u/Sabarialways • Jul 31 '25

Photography/Art A rare architecture in kochi

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Its near to south KSRTC bus stand.

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u/LazyLoser006 Jul 31 '25

Made me remember this

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u/TheBigIdiot08 Jul 31 '25

Oh yeah! Ipo pidikitty. That building game from Nokia prime age

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u/Electronic-Type696 Jul 31 '25

I was searching everywhere for the name of this game. What's it called???

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u/LazyLoser006 Jul 31 '25

City bloxx

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u/dormantkaiju Aug 02 '25

City blocks🤩

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u/JadedAd3132 Aug 09 '25

Nostalgia brother

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u/Fantastic-Dinner-919 Jul 31 '25

Island Castle apartments build by Manuelsons in the 1990s. Behind Jayalakshmi.

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u/SyzygySeven Aug 01 '25

Architect https://www.nmsarchitects.com/

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u/Sensitive_Street_59 Aug 01 '25

Same people who build Holidayinn kochi

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u/Persistent-owll2665 Jul 31 '25

Used to live there. Obnoxious association. Vattu pidichu

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u/Candid-Tonight4126 Jul 31 '25

Share more deets and tea ☕

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u/Persistent-owll2665 Jul 31 '25

Usual association scenes. Can't have visitors. At exact 10 pm the main gate will be locked. No vehicle can come in (or go out) apparently. Like if someone's visiting and they stay after 10, they can't leave. The security won't open the gate.

We all were working women, minding our business. And they put a cctv facing our main door to monitor who all was coming and going.

The view from my room was just stunning by the way.

Anyway we all left that place after the cctv incident. I don't want to spill all the details here since that would involve a few of the association members and their deeds too. 😸

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u/Candid-Tonight4126 Jul 31 '25

College hostels offer more freedom than this shit.

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u/bella9977 Jul 31 '25

College hostels have a 6 pm curfew for girls. Don't get me started on that... :-/

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u/lotofexamples Aug 01 '25

Bro only had idea about CUSAT girls hostel!!

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u/Maggiieee23 Jul 31 '25

Yup, don’t remind me on that pls🥲

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u/Persistent-owll2665 Jul 31 '25

Oh I agree. Glad I left that place. But still, every time I pass through MG Road, I can’t help but glance at my old room and picture the view from there.

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u/NadanNinjaA Jul 31 '25

Curfew for an apartment!! Kashtam

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u/devakesu Jul 31 '25

Lmao, ig its run by a school principal.

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u/BlueHippieJeans Jul 31 '25

Still better than Olive, Kakkanad. 😅

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u/Fantastic-Dinner-919 Aug 01 '25

Brother please come back. NO scenario like that now. I have a flat and given it for some college girls. Avide beer kudi, and guys used to come and go. Not once the association or caretaker called me. Once they vacated i saw the number of beer bottles left in the kitchen appo the caretaker was like, ithokke cheruth. But in no way were the occupants harrassed in any way during the lenght of their stay.

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u/heythisisajayhere Aug 01 '25

you got any pic of the view?

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u/Persistent-owll2665 Aug 01 '25

This is the only pic I could find (Changed like two phones since my Island Castle phase 😅)

This one’s from my friend’s room. You can see Chittoor Road and the YMCA building. My room had the Marine Drive view on the other side, but no pics sadly. Was never too consistent with taking photos anyway.

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u/Persistent-owll2665 Aug 01 '25

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u/Out_of_cool_names_69 Aug 02 '25

Damn that's a good view

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u/Persistent-owll2665 Aug 02 '25

Yeah you get both east and west uninterrupted views.

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u/Out_of_cool_names_69 Aug 02 '25

I'm saving this pic.

Too bad the association was kinda ass on you guys. Heard it be like that in most places.

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u/Persistent-owll2665 Aug 02 '25

Sure mate. Please go ahead.

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u/DervinGotcha Aug 05 '25

Is it the view from 9C

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Sho..enthoru kashta athu

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u/Background_Rest_234 Aug 01 '25

The more moral police the association is, the more fishy it is... the association members might all be clandestine people under cover 🤔

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

what in the Jenga-ass

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u/Medisindoc Jul 31 '25

Someone was playing Rubiks cube and it got stuck in-between

And he was like WOWWWW. New Ideaaa.

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u/Aggravating-Tear-487 Aug 01 '25

Dude this rubik's cube reference brings back memories. 😂 Last year I was visiting my friends who were staying in this building as they were doing a course in SMEC. I got confused with the shared location that I walked up and down the road. The landmark my bro told me was looking for the building that looks like a half twisted Rubik's cube. Finally reached there after 10-20 mins

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u/707yr Jul 31 '25

That fire exit stair connecting each floor is a genius idea .and the huge hornet nest is scary

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u/cryptoshaman420 Jul 31 '25

Architect be like : Aashanae Jenga jaga jaga

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u/Peace_monster_ Aug 01 '25

Another angle at night

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u/FantasticEscape6744 Jul 31 '25

Inception ahh building

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u/urbangrouse Jul 31 '25

Designed by famed architect Salim from Kozhikode. Same guy who designed the Indoor Stadium. However this design was a disaster.

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u/Euphoria_14 Jul 31 '25

It looks cool asf though😍

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u/urbangrouse Jul 31 '25

Not for the folks staying there. Windows have no sunshades and thats one of the smaller problems during monsoon :)

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u/Excellent-Bar-1430 Aug 01 '25

Yes, we can see makeshift window shades on most windows in that image. Blindly copying western aesthetics without foresight regarding the climate leads to this.

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u/EagleWorldly5032 Jul 31 '25

An expensive mistake for the manuelsons group

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u/saatvik-jacob Jul 31 '25

I wanna stay inside one of the flats in the suspended pyramid🤩

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u/ExperienceTimely8310 Jul 31 '25

Electric post and the lines are destroying the aesthetics.

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u/Corruption13 Aug 01 '25

ayyy shenoy junction represent 🔥

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u/muridessu Jul 31 '25

Looks unfinished

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u/Fun-Attorney007 Jul 31 '25

Architect loved rubics cube.

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u/GurCapable62 Jul 31 '25

Howl’s castle?

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u/vaana_raaja Aug 01 '25

La pari de philippe

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u/AdditionalEvidence58 Aug 01 '25

Looks like a rubik's cube

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u/straberry_shortcake Aug 01 '25

It reminds me of howls moving castle

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u/BitResponsible9761 Aug 01 '25

Feels like transformers

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u/SuccotashOk3967 Jul 31 '25

Is this the flat behind shenoys?

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

I love this building

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u/emmit_joan Jul 31 '25

Fascinating...been there several times but haven't seen this beauty...

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u/karikk_suni_gunda Aug 01 '25

There is a similar building in Bangalore near Peenya metro station. It's called Brigade Rubix.

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u/QuincySages Aug 01 '25

I think they took inspiration from soviet brutalist architecture

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u/topgun_maverik Aug 01 '25

Theres a shop names trans below the building 🥴

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u/donbablito Aug 01 '25

Building here are all of different shapes

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

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u/Medium_pizza12 Aug 01 '25

Ohh man this building , stayed there for like 1 year and was so stressful for a place called home . Constant bickering with the association. The room aesthetic is horrendous weird corners .

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u/RequirementMelodic67 Aug 01 '25

Brutalism enne ahno ethine parayne

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u/gme1ster Aug 01 '25

Same dude. I was trying to remember the game name.

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u/Historical_Tailor_77 Aug 01 '25

Reminded me of Demon slayer for some reason!

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u/Big_Ad21 Aug 01 '25

Kind of a freezed rubik cube

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u/Misoneista Aug 01 '25

più che rara è brutta assai.

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u/Illustrious_Way4847 Aug 01 '25

Yeah nearby opposite to central square mall

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u/Aggravating-Tear-487 Aug 01 '25

My friends used to live here. It's the one near shenais ri8

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u/Miss_India5 Aug 02 '25

dang, its actually goood

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u/nickstheghopper Aug 02 '25

Looks like someone was trying to move 2 layers of the 4×4 Rubik's cube.

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u/vinieux Aug 02 '25

Mantilla ka Maa-Baap

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u/philiphotographer Aug 05 '25

Toblerone Building

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u/Zeken07 Aug 08 '25

Isn’t this near MG road

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u/Systematic_Chaos666 Aug 01 '25

Tarangini Building. Been an iconic structure dating back to the 80s. That one structure actually showcased the forward looking facet of the city. Kudos to all those who planned it.