A sight becoming more common in post-earthquake Christchurch - lifting earthquake-affected buildings to allow their foundations to be replaced and or completely replaced.
Camera is on groun level. Drain lifted
A photograph of lifted tiles at the University of Canterbury.
A photoshopped image of a cross being lifted by a crane.
A shipping container being lifted over the roof of a house.
A page banner promoting an article titled, "Art Gallery to be lifted".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A young man waits for a lift home".
A page banner promoting a lift-out titled, "Land and new homes".
Damage to the Lyttelton Port. A concrete slab has lifted, breaking the asphalt.
A crane lifting the roof of one of the temporary buildings off the ground.
A crane on London Street in Lyttelton, lifting a platform outside the Empire Hotel.
A crane on London Street in Lyttelton, lifting a platform outside the Empire Hotel.
Road seal along a street in Avonside which has been lifted by the earthquake.
A crane lifting stacks of painted pallets during the construction of the Pallet Pavilion.
A large crack in the concrete floor slab of a building in Barbadoes Street. The photographer comments, "This is a picture of the cracked concrete floor in a shop in the Christchurch CBD. I have a similar crack in my home, but I have not lifted the carpet to look".
A sewage pumping station on Avonside Drive near the intersection with Robson Avenue has been lifted out of the ground by liquefaction. The photographer comments, "A Sunday afternoon ride to New Brighton, then back via Aranui, Wainoni, Dallington, and Richmond. Not a cheerful experience. Pumping station. Another hydraulically-lifted sewage pumping station, this time on Avonside Drive".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. House on Avonside Drive lifted off its foundations".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. House on Avonside Drive lifted off its foundations".
Damage to the Lyttelton Port. A concrete slab has lifted and broken at the edge.
Men lifting a car onto the back of a truck outside the Christchurch Botanic Gardens.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. House on Avonside Drive lifted off its foundations".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. House on Avonside Drive lifted off its foundations".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Oxford Terrace. The ACC building lift shaft with strengthing".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Oxford Terrace. The ACC building lift shaft with strengthing".
A photograph of the interior of the Hotel Grand Chancellor, showing lift doors out of alignment.
A photograph of pipes lifted out of the ground at a petrol station in New Brighton.
A crane lifting material off the roof the damaged Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A crane lifts an intact chandelier from Shrimpton Radcliffe Design following Canterbury's earthquakes".
A photograph of crumpled pavement on a footpath where the ground underneath has lifted during the earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A crane lifts an intact chandelier from Shrimpton Radcliffe Design following Canterbury's earthquakes".
