A photograph of the cliff face along Wakefield Avenue in Sumner. It is showing signs of recent rockfall.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rockfall on Dyers Pass Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rockfall on Dyers Pass Road".
Shipping containers protect the road from rockfall in Sumner. One of the containers has been spray-painted, "Sumner rocks".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sumner".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Intersection of Nyland Street and Wakefield Avenue, Sumner".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Protective wall of shipping containers below the Sumner cliffs".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Redcliffs school".
Boulders fallen against the shipping containers lining the base of the cliffs in Redcliffs, which were place to protect the road from rockfall.
Boulders fallen against the shipping containers lining the base of the cliffs in Redcliffs, which were place to protect the road from rockfall.
Boulders fallen against the shipping containers lining the base of the cliffs in Redcliffs, which were place to protect the road from rockfall.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sumner cliffs".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "16 March, 2011. Redcliffs School with the rock fall behind which is the reason the school is closed".
Houses perched on the edge of the cliff above Peacock's Gallop. Below, a line of shipping containers are protecting the road from further rockfall.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Clifton Hill".
A line of shipping containers along the base of the cliffs in Sumner protects the road from rockfalls. In the foreground on the right is what remains of Shag Rock.
Shipping containers protect the road from rockfall in Sumner. On the cliffs above, damaged houses teeter on the edge of the cliff. One of the containers has been decorated with an artwork.
A "no swimming" sign on the beach at Sumner. In the background are shipping containers protecting the road from rockfall, and above a damaged house teeters on the edge of a cliff.
A line of shipping containers along the base of the cliffs in Sumner protects the road from rockfalls. Behind is the rubble of a house which has partially fallen from the cliff.
A line of shipping containers along the base of the cliffs in Sumner protects the road from rockfalls. Behind is the rubble of a house which has partially fallen from the cliff.
A line of shipping containers along the base of the cliffs in Sumner protects the road from rockfalls. On the right is the rubble of a house which has partially fallen from the cliff.
Shipping containers protect the road from rockfall in Sumner. On the cliffs above, damaged houses teeter on the edge of the cliff. One of the containers has been decorated with an artwork, and another has been spray-painted, "Sumner rocks".
A video of an address by Tom Hooper, CEO of Canterbury Development Corporation, at the 2014 Seismics and the City forum. This talk was part of the Building Confidence section.
A PDF copy of pages 196-197 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Container Art'. Photos: Eugenio Boidi
A damaged house teetering on the edge of the cliff in Sumner. Below, shipping containers along the edge of Peacock's Gallop protect the road from further rockfall. The photographer comments, "About four meters of the rock face collapsed on June 13 undermining several houses along the cliff top".