A photograph of street art on Dyers Pass Road at the Bromley wood and demolition yard, Silvan Salvage. The artwork depicts a tree on the left and tag writing on the right. The blue text says "Teaching old logs new tricks" and the white text says "The Silvan Salvage".
A photograph looking south down Manchester Street from the intersection of Lichfield and High Streets. Rubble has been cleared from the street and stacked next to the earthquake-damaged stores to the right. A member of an emergency management team is standing on the street in the distance with a truck and an excavator behind them.
A scanned copy of a black and white photograph belonging to University of Canterbury alumnus Colin Lau. Colin describes the photograph as follows: "Our science building (where I got my physics degree in 1972) on the left, lecture hall in the middle and engineering school to the right & behind the lecture hall".
A view down London Street in Lyttelton. The road has been closed to traffic because of the unstable and damaged buildings in the area. On the left is the Empire Hotel where bracing has been placed on the front of the building. On the right is a shipping container in front of the damaged Wunderbar. The word 'coffee' has been spray painted on the side.
A photograph of crowds at the LUXCITY event. The photograph shows installations on the corner of Gloucester Street and Colombo Street. In the foreground is the installation titled "In Your Face", and to the right is the installation titled "Etch-a-Sketch".
A photograph of the As Far As Eye Can See exhibition. On the left is a crocheted image of an eye, created by a group of women from Adelaide, and on the right are woven fabric artworks created by Christchurch craft artists in response.
Looking south west across Cathedral Square showing the eastern side of Christchurch Cathedral (left), the Godley statue (centre left) with the (from left to right) Chief Post Office, the Regent Theatre Building (directly behind the statue on the corner of Worcester Street), the AMP Building, the Government Life Building and the Grand Theatre.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on Lichfield Street. Masonry from the top section of the building has broken away and spilled onto the footpath below. A red sticker has been placed on the door, indicating that the building is unsafe to enter. USAR codes have been spray-painted on the column and window to the right.
A photograph of a portable shower unit set up in Hagley Park for the emergency management personnel who travelled to Christchurch after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. A clothes line has been set up by tying ropes to the shower unit and a digger. To the right, a number of portaloos can also be seen.
A photograph looking south out a window of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Building. Notable landmarks include: New Regent Street and the Rendezvous Hotel on the left side of the photograph; the Novotel in the centre; the Lyttelton Times building to the right; and the Hotel Grand Chancellor in the background.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on Gloucester Street. The building is part of Stonehurst Accommodation. The bottom storey of the building has collapsed and the top two storeys are resting on the rubble. The closest wall of the building has also collapsed and is resting on top of the rubble to the right of the building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Stonehurst Accommodation on Gloucester Street. The bottom storey of the closest building has collapsed and the top two storeys are sitting on a pile of rubble. More rubble has also spilled into the driveway to the right. Wire fencing has been placed around the buildings as a cordon.
Volunteers photographed around one of Gap Filler's painted pianos. The piano has been set up at the demolished site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. A wooden structure has been built around the piano with Perspex and corrugated iron on top and plastic sheeting to the left and right. This is to protect the piano and pianist from wind and rain.
A photograph of the entrance to the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The window to the left has been boarded up with plywood, and tape has been placed in front to keep the area clear. A green sticker can be seen in the window to the right, indicating that the hotel is safe to enter.
A photograph of looking west out a window of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Building on Armagh Street. To the left is the Victoria Apartments with a slight forward lean. Victoria Square is in the centre of the photograph and to the right is the Crowne Plaza Hotel. In the foreground is the Copthorne Hotel.
A photograph of an earthquake-damaged house. Wooden bracing has been placed in between the house and the fence, with wires connecting the top of the bracing to the peak of the roof. Emergency management personnel are in the driveway to the right. In the foreground a section of the brick fence at the front of the property has toppled.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of the earthquake in Christchurch where the cleanup has begun. Shoreham Courts, City Council owned flats on Admirals Way in New Brighton are an island of isolation with no water or sewerage although all around them have. Lorraine Burrows, centre left, her son, Jamie, 8, left, Charllisa Sutton-Taylor and Oceana Rawiri at right".
A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office working at the reception area of Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up as temporary accommodation for those displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake. To the right Tim Shadbolt, Mayor of Invercargill, is talking on a telephone.
A photograph of Shooters on the corner of Manchester and Cashel Street. Yellow stickers on the door indicate that access to the building is restricted. To the left, road cones and cordon tape have been used to close off Manchester Street. On the right, there is wire fencing along both sides of Cashel Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on Hereford Street. A column on the right side of the building has snapped and the side wall has pulled away from the building. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the windows on the bottom storey. In the foreground there is a police car.
A photograph taken from the top of the BNZ building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "From left to right are the Brannigans building (under demolition), former Government Life Building, Farmers building, MFL building (under demolition), Forsyth Barr building (staying) , PricewaterhouseCoopers building (going) and the roof of the cathedral in the foreground".
A photograph looking north up Durham Street from the Gloucester Street intersection. To the left, there is a large pile of rubble from a demolished building, to the right, the Canterbury Provincial Chambers. The Provincial Chambers building has been largely deconstructed and plastic sheeting has been placed over part of the roof. Wire fencing has been placed around the buildings.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street. The tower on the right has crumbled, and the masonry has fallen to the pavement below. A car has been crushed by the fallen rubble. Windows in the tower behind are broken.
A photograph of a member of the New Zealand Police using a search dog to examine the rubble of the Caledonian Hall on Kilmore Street. There are two crushed cars amongst the rubble. To the right a member of an Urban Search and Rescue team is watching on.
Damaged buildings along London Street. Wire fencing has been used to keep people away. To the left is the Volcano Cafe, centre the Lava Bar and on the right is a fish and chip shop. A pile of rubble lies on the street from the damaged buildings.
A powhiri performed by Ngai Tahu elders to welcome workers of the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT). Mayor Bob Parker is standing to the right. Reverend Peter Beck and Earthquake Minister Gerry Brownlee are also present. The ceremony was held in Burwood Park.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 showing a painting silhouette of a yacht. A caption painted associated with the image reads "Sailing away? Yea right... Falling Away" The painting was executed in blue and black on a large curved concrete block of a temporary retaining wall in Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. The res...
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 25 February 2011 showing Her Majesty's New Zealand Ships (HMNZS) (left to right) Pukaki, Otago and Canterbury berthed at Number Seven Wharf in Lyttelton's Inner Harbour. HMNZS Canterbury was tied up in Lyttelton loading New Zealand Army equipment when the magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred on 22 F...
The clock face on the left is showing the correct time. The clock face on the right stopped at the moment of the big earthquake in CHCH on Sept 4th at 4.25am. It stayed like that for a week until fixed. Interestingly that face has not shown the correct time since.
This is the pedestrian bridge in Kaiapoi close to Christchurch. Not the best angle but the whole bridge on the right hand side is twisted and looks like some kind of rollercoaster. Taken one month after the Quake Twitter |