A view down High Street, looking south-east from the Cashel Street intersection.
Mike Hewson's installation "Government Life Suspension", seen from Oxford Terrace.
Diggers clearing a demolition site in Cathedral Square, seen from Worcester Street.
Food cabinets in Man's Bakery and Cafe on Hereford Street still hold food items abandoned on 22 February 2011.
Two excavators demolish a building on Hereford Street.
Steel and wooden structures protect Our City O-Tautahi from further damage.
UC CEISMIC team members Han Li, Lucy-Jane Walsh and Chris Thomson walk along the cordon fence on Oxford Terrace.
Children's artworks hanging from the cordon fence on Gloucester Street.
The partially demolished BNZ building on Armargh Street, seen from Gloucester Street.
Autumn leaves piled up outside the boarded-up doors to the Central Library on Gloucester Street.
The north side of the Cathedral, seen from Colombo Street.
Mike Hewson's installation "Government Life Suspension", seen from Oxford Terrace.
A child's artwork hanging from the cordon fence on Gloucester Street.
Children play on street furniture on Gloucester Street, part of one of the Christchurch City Council's Transitional City projects. In the background is the facade of the Isaac Theatre Royal, protected by shipping containers.
The dome of the Isaac Theatre Royal, covered in plastic sheeting and suspended in its stage area, awaits restoration.
The partially demolished BNZ building on Armargh Street, seen from New Regent Street.
Members of the UC CEISMIC team, Lucy-Jane Walsh and Han Li, walk down the newly re-opened New Regent Street.
Staff prepare coffee in a cafe in the newly re-opened New Regent Street.
UC CEISMIC team members Chris Thomson and Lucy-Jane Walsh order coffee in the newly re-opened New Regent Street.
The newly re-opened New Regent Street.
The view from upstairs in a cafe in the newly re-opened New Regent Street.
A digger demolishes the ANZ building in Cathedral Square. The partially demolished BNZ building is also visible. Photograph taken from upstairs in the Re:Start mall.
Caleb Middendorf tries out the penny farthing bicycle in one of the reopened galleries of the Canterbury Museum.
A crowd watches a busker perform outside Ballantynes during the World Buskers Festival.
A Christmas tree erected on the building site for the temporary "cardboard cathedral". The base of the support framework for the cathedral is visible behind the tree.
Inside Scorpio's Bookshop, one of the container shops in the Re:Start mall.
A crowd watches buskers performing outside Ballantynes during the World Buskers Festival.
A "Welcome to Christchurch" sign on the cordon fence near the Re:Start mall provides a map of the red zone and information for tourists.
A crowd watches a busker perform outside Ballantynes during the World Buskers Festival.
People look through viewing windows into the Red Zone at the east end of the Re:Start mall.