A photograph of the earthquake damage to 139 Colombo Street.
A photograph of Cashel Street, looking east from Colombo Street.
A photograph of Cashel Street, looking east from Colombo Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "628 Colombo Street and 157 Tuam Street".
A satirical sign for Tui Beer on the side of a bar in Sydenham reading, "Earthquake? We closed for renovations. Yeah right. Tui".
A colourful table outside the Coffee Zone kiosk in Sydenham.
Outdoor seating and the garden outside the Coffee Zone kiosk in Sydenham. This garden was a project supported by Greening the Rubble.
The path between two shipping container structures in Sydenham, leading to a colourful gate.
Plant beds made out of corrugated iron, greening the empty building sites along Colombo Street. These were placed here by Greening the Rubble, a community project in Christchurch to create temporary public parks and gardens on the sites of demolished buildings.
Coffee Zone, a cafe in a shack on a Gap Filler site in Sydenham.
A cascade of hanging baskets outside the Coffee Zone kiosk.
Shipping containers on the sites of demolished buildings in Sydenham.
A sign describing Gap Filler's temporary office in Sydenham.
The Gap Filler headquarters on a vacant lot on Colombo Street in Sydenham. Wheelbarrows full of new plants decorate the outside area. In the background is a mural with a poem reading, "The things which I have seen I now can see no more".
Lego bricks on the corner of the Coffee Zone kiosk. A hole has been left for a cable to pass through.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Cashel Mall to Cathedral Square walkway".
A blackboard on the side of the Coffee Zone shack in Sydenham with the opening hours and mobile number for text orders.
Workers eat lunch at an outdoor table next to the Gap Filler Community Chess Set on Colombo Street. The Chess Set was a collaboration between Gap Filler and students at the University of Canterbury. The project aimed to restore the iconic Christchurch Chess Set that used to be played in Cathedral Square.
Lego bricks in the cracks between the wooden planks of the Coffee Zone kiosk.
Moira Fraser talks to a staff member at Coffee Zone, a cafe in a shack on a Gap Filler site in Sydenham.
Moira Fraser talking to the staff at the Coffee Zone, a cafe in a shack on a Gap Filler site in Sydenham.
Revealed after the SoulFood Cafe building was demolished
A photograph looking south towards the PricewaterhouseCoopers Building from Colombo Street. In the background, two cranes can be seen. The Ernst and Young Building is to the left.
A photograph of a building on the corner of Colombo Street and Oxford Terrace. Some windows are broken and the door has been boarded up with plywood
A photograph of Kims Restaurant on Colombo Street with a damaged gable. The bricks have broken from the wall and fallen inside the building.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Forsyth Barr and PWC Buildings with the Copthorne Colombo Hotel partly obscured".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Wharetiki (aka Grenfell House) built for Matthew and Mary Barnett and completed in 1904, 854 Colombo Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "City Council crew cleaning up on the Colombo - High Street intersection".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Young people check their laptops at the temporary South City Library in the Sydenham Mall, Colombo Street south".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Wharetiki on Colombo Street. One of the walls has buckled and pulled away from the house.
