Fallen rocks from a landscape feature in front of an apartment building on Ferry Road. Liquefaction silt can be seen on the driveway.
Boarded up windows and USAR codes on the Gloucester Arcade building. Shattered glass can be seen on the footpath.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Here we can see why Redcliffs School is still closed".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Here we can see why Redcliffs School is still closed".
The Bridge of Remembrance on Durham Street. The Hotel Grand Chancellor can be seen through the archway.
A tilted power pole on Avonside Drive. A portaloo and road cones can be seen in the distance.
People stand near the Red Zone viewing windows at the east end of Re:Start. Te Waiponamu House can be seen in the background.
People look through the cordon fencing on the Bridge of Remembrance. The Grand Chancellor can be seen through the arch of the bridge.
A photograph looking east down Armagh Street from Victoria Square. The Forsyth Barr building can be seen in the distance.
A shed on at Gap Filler's first project at 832 Colombo Street. Cushions and pot plants can be seen in front.
A view of the intersection of Colombo and Salisbury Streets. A damaged house that has been cordoned off can be partially seen in the background.
The Chalice in Cathedral Square with a crane and the BNZ building in the background. A pile of rubble can be seen on the left.
The public walking through and taking photographs of the ongoing deconstruction and construction work in the CBD. Two diggers can be seen in the background.
Reconstruction work on Our City-O-Tautahi, located in the former Municipal Chambers. Extensive bracing can be seen on front wall of the building.
Damage to a property in the CBD. Cracking can be seen along the roof and footpath, and the garage in the right background looks distorted.
A hand-painted "Road closed" sign on a residential street beside the river. Flooding and liquefaction can be seen along the edges of the road.
A photograph of a brick removed from the Cranmer Centre. A frog stamp can just be seen.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a residential street in Christchurch. Portaloos can be seen on both sides of the road.
A row of apartments on Armagh Street. At the end of the car park, a pile of silt from liquefaction can be seen.
A Frews excavator cleaning up the site of a demolished building on Cashel Street. Behind it the Les Mills building can be seen.
A photograph of the Hutchinson Ford car yard on Tuam Street. Damage can be seen to the building's facade.
The Bridge of Remembrance on Cambridge and Oxford Terraces. Through the bridge, collapsed buildings in Cashel Street can be seen.
Broken pavement in the Halswell Primary School grounds. Silt from liquefaction can also be seen.
People look through the cordon fencing on the Bridge of Remembrance. The Grand Chancellor can be seen through the arch of the bridge.
A view into the Red Zone from Colombo Street, looking through cordon fencing. Some shipping containers and diggers can be partially seen in the background.
A portaloo outside the Christchurch branch of Deaf Aotearoa. Dried silt from liquefaction can be seen along the footpath and the edge of the building.
A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Nao Yoshimizu comforting the grieving relative of an earthquake victim. The image has been further graffitied to hide the officer's uniform, and the original advertisement text ("You too can do something extraordinary. Become a cop.") altered to read "You too can do something ordinary. Become a human".
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch sorting through pieces of broken china. Two of the members are using tools to break the china into smaller pieces.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "May 2011. The team has met, made a plan of attack, and are beginning the huge job of breaking up china into useable pieces which can be stored easily. Some of our earliest members can be seen in this photograph (from left: Sharon Wilson, Shirley Walden, Helen Campbell, and Marie Hudson)."
Sadly the days are numbered after the 6.3 quake that hit Christchurch 22 February 2011! You can see the blue streel strengthening on the tower from the earthquake on 4 September 2010. Also if you look closely you can see the cracks that have determained its fate! Press L.
According to the sign it can take about 30 minutes to walk from the entry point (near the small statue) to the centre and out again. What you can do with a few thousand old bricks and gravel. See next photo for more detail.