Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Shops on Colombo Street between Kilmore Street and Peterborough Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A woman carries her shopping past the extensively-damaged Blackwells department store in Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The rear of many High Street shops viewed from St Asaph Street".
A handwritten 'For lease' sign in the window of clothing shop Himalaya. The windows are covered with newspapers.
Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
A photograph of the arm of a fallen shop mannequin in the window of Glassons on Cashel Street.
Damage to the Country Theme shop on St Asaph Street. The upper storey of the building has collapsed.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Shops on Colombo Street between Kilmore Street and Peterborough Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Shops on Colombo Street between Kilmore Street and Peterborough Street".
Shops on Ferry Road, across the road from the demolition site where the Gap Filler Piano Project is.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of a block of shops at 461-469 Colombo Street, Sydenham.
Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hats on the stand of an open shop window in Cashel Mall".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Shops on Colombo Street between Kilmore Street and Peterborough Street".
Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
A photograph of Williams Street in Kaiapoi. A sign on a shop awning reads, "Kaiapoi. Rebuilding our town".
Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
Mannequins in the display window of a shop in Merivale Mall have fallen over following the February earthquake.
Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
Workers helping to remediate the space under the Library, creating room for shops, banks and public eating areas.
This shop lost its side wall when the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Christchurch on 4 September 2010.
This shop lost its side wall when the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Christchurch on 4 September 2010.
This shop lost its gable during the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on 4 September 2010.
A photograph of a sign on the window of a fish and chip shop on London Street in Lyttelton. The sign reads, "Sorry we can't open. I want to work but they tell me not safe and may be 6 months or more. I am sad I need to work. Everybody has big problem so sorry for you and me. Keep safe. Phyong fish and chip owner".
Damaged buildings along London Street. Wire fencing has been used to keep people away. From the left are the Volcano Cafe, the Lava Bar, a fish and chip shop, and the Coastal Living Design Store. Rubble from the side of the Volcano Cafe can be seen along the Canterbury Street footpath.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a group of shops on Colombo Street near the intersection of Kilmore Street. Large sections of the top storeys of the buildings have collapsed. Most of the bricks and other rubble have been cleared from the footpath. USAR codes have been spray-painted on many of the shops' windows. The closest store has been demolished and the rubble has been cleared away.
A large chess board made from sand and broken shells, with a painted beach scene on the wall behind. The photographer comments, "After all the suggestions put on the wall on what to do in this area, which was once an earthquake damaged shop, they have made the chess board, painted a seaside scene on the wall and created a small wall of tyres".
