Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street. Demolition rubble and a shop window mural reflected in a mirror on the back wall of a shop".
Intersection of Colombo and St Asaph Street, where road cones have been placed on the road to divert traffic from a demolition site in the background.
The back of the facade of the Excelsior Hotel, preserved after the demolition of the hotel. It is being supported by wooden bracing and shipping containers.
20120805_7586_1D3-600 30 seconds later the dust drifts across the city.
Following the demolition of the earthquake damaged Newstalk ZB building.
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of Kenton Chambers, 190-192 Hereford Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of Warners Hotel at 36-50 Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of Warners Hotel at 36-50 Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The PricewaterhouseCoopers building under deconstruction at 119 Armagh Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The link between Morley House and Durham Street Methodist Church".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Intersection of Colombo and Brougham Streets".
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.
A digger clearing building rubble from demolished buildings on the corner of London Street in Lyttelton.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "24 London Street, Lyttelton. Where the Harbourlight Theatre was".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor, Cashel Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "South-west corner of Colombo and Tuam Streets".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of the CTV Building on Cashel Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Louis Vuitton Building being demolished, COlombo Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Neither of these buildings will be there for much longer".
The partially demolished Ozone Hotel in New Brighton, with a digger in the background.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "PWC, Copthorne and Forsyth Barr, central city".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "PWC, Copthorne and Forsyth Barr, central city".
The sign for St Mary and St Athanasius Church on Edgeware Road. The church has been demolished.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "PWC, Copthorne and Forsyth Barr, central city".
A digitally manipulated photograph of twisted reinforcing rods amongst the rubble from the demolition of QEII. The photographer comments, "These rarely seen worms live in the pressurised earth under the foundations of buildings. They need a damp soil and be under at least 100 pounds of pressure per square inch. After the destructive force of an earthquake they swiftly rise to the surface through gaps in the rubble. Unfortunately they quickly die and then crystallise as hard as iron in the dry low pressure air".
8 Velsheda Street, Bexley, Christchurch, across the road from my house was demolished a week or so ago, just one of many demolitions of Red Zone properties at the moment. This house was about ten years old and suffered land damage during the 4th September 2010 and 22nd February 2011 earthquakes.
The same fate awaits my house later in the year o...
A tangle of metal pipes and a roof beam on the footpath outside the Durham Street Methodist Church.
A view across Edgeware Road to the cleared site of St Mary and St Athanasius Church. The site has been cordoned off with road cones and emergency tape.
A splintered doorway in the remains of the Durham Street Methodist Church. A pile of broken masonry is sitting in front.
A pile of bricks, mortar, concrete and rusty metal constituting the remains of Beckenham Baptist Church on Colombo Street. A white sign has been erected outside the church reading, "Our church is still meeting. Please join us on Sunday. We gather in the youth hall, access is from #7 Percival St. (Turn left on Tennyson then left again on Percival)".
