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 view across Oxford Street in Lyttelton to a pile of rubble from a row of demolished buildings. Wire fencing has been placed down the street as a cordon.
A photograph looking south down Colombo Street from the intersection of Armagh Street. The road has been cordoned off and an excavator is demolishing a building on the right.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gap Filler project, a garden in the site of a demolished building on the corner of Oxford and Colombo Street, 822 Colombo Street".
A photograph of an art work showing on the exposed internal wall of a partially-demolished building on Peterborough Street and Victoria Street. The artwork depicts a seated woman.
In-Spiired Challenge', a Gap Golf course on a the site of a demolished building. It has been built by Gap Filler out of wooden planks and green felt.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gap Filler project, a garden in the site of a demolished building on the corner of Oxford and Colombo Street, 822 Colombo Street".
In-Spiired Challenge', a Gap Golf course on a the site of a demolished building. It has been built by Gap Filler out of wooden planks and green felt.
A mini golf course on a the site of a demolished building. It has been built by Gap Filler out of planks of wood, stones, bricks and green felt.
In-Spiired Challenge', a Gap Golf course on a the site of a demolished building. It has been built by Gap Filler out of wooden planks and green felt.
A photograph of the site of the demolished Caledonian Hall on Kilmore Street. Nearly all of the rubble has been cleared away. In the background is the Medlab building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gap Filler project, a garden in the site of a demolished building on the corner of Oxford and Colombo Street, 822 Colombo Street".
A photograph of Mike Hewson's installation, 'Government Life Suspension', on the wall of the Chancery Arcade building. The artwork depicts a reflection of the Government Life building which is visible behind the Chancery Arcade. The installation is part of a series titled 'Homage to the Lost Spaces'. The Government Life and Chancery Arcade buildings were demolished in 2014.
Cracking below the window of the former Lyttelton Fire Station and Public Library. The photographer comments, "The building at 2 Sumner Road has been sadly damaged by the quake. I was unsure of its future, but now this building has been demolished".
A view of the ICTS building at the University of Canterbury, seen from level 7 of the James Hight building. The photographer comments, "First looks at our new temporary (maybe) office space. Our group will stay here until April or May 2011, then will move to another floor in the Central Library. We look down on the IT Building, which is doomed. The ugly draughty IT building is going to be demolished in the next campus revamp. The 'Butterfly Building' behind, originally the mainframe computer centre, will remain, as it's architecturally significant, apparently".
A photograph submitted by Raymond Morris to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "‘Highway Lodge’ 121 Papanui Rd. A picturesque boutique hotel, a painting by Raymond Morris of earthquake demolished buildings.".
Detail of wooden bracing supporting a two-storey building on the corner of Barbadoes and Worcester Streets. The house has been fenced off and on the walls are the words "Do not demolish".
A partially-demolished brick building has the word "red" painted on its wall. Liquefaction surrounds piles of bricks on the ground in front. The photographer comments, "I guess they ran out of red stickers".
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 23 December 2012, looking over Hereford Street with the BNZ Building almost demolished in the centre left.
A photograph of a the rubble from a demolished building on the corner of Colombo and Tuam Streets. An excavator is parked on the street to the left. Wire fencing has been placed around the buildings on the other side of the street.
A digitally manipulated image of the Gap Filler Monopoly board square on Manchester Street. The photographer comments, "On the site of a demolished earthquake damaged building in Christchurch, New Zealand is a Monopoly game square for giants. The Gap Filler Project makes the bare land where once a building once stood into something both interesting and unique and this time they created a massive Monopoly board square. In the game of Monopoly you move your player with a dog, shoe or maybe the hat, but as the most common thing in the City are diggers they have the placed one on the square. There are also two houses on Manchester Street, which is priced at $240".
A video of an interview with Zac Cassels, the co-owner of the Cassels & Sons Brewery bar, about the preparations for the bar's opening. The bar is to open in a historic building on Madras Street, despite CERA's plans to demolish the building and build a stadium.
A time-lapse video of New Regent Street, taken from The Press building, which accidentally captured the collapse of the Copthorne Hotel. A cloud of dust from the collapsing building can be seen in the top of the video. The hotel collapsed while it was being demolished.
A photograph of Elizabeth Ackermann standing in front of a partially-demolished building on Cashel Street. In the background, two excavators are working to remove the rubble from the site.
A photograph of the site of a demolished building on the south-west corner of Durham and Armagh Streets. In the background, two excavators are clearing rubble from the site.
A vacant site on Williams Street in Kaiapoi where a building has been demolished. It has been enclosed with safety fences and traffic cones have been used to block access.
Building rubble in front of a partially demolished house on Peterborough Street. The photographer comments, "Wood at the front, bricks in the middle and bits of house at the back".
A photograph of Elizabeth Ackermann standing in front of a partially-demolished building on Cashel Street. In the background, two excavators are working to remove the rubble from the site.
A photograph of a member of an emergency management team standing on Gloucester Street near Latimer Square. In the background an excavator is clearing the rubble from a demolished building.
A pigeon perches in the beams of a damaged building. The photographer comments, "The building next door was demolished after the Christchurch earthquake, which exposed the side of this building with it's very old corrugated iron walls. Some of the sheeting was damaged and exposed parts of the interior. The pigeon was sitting on a bit of wood with the beam above it had a very serious crack. I think you would be nervous as well".