A written history of 2 Cathedral Square, site of the BNZ Building and BNZ Tower.
A written history of 47 Hereford Street, site of St. Elmo's Courts.
A written history of 214 Tuam Street, the Odeon Theatre.
A written history of 78 Worcester Street, the Clarendon Hotel and Clarendon Towers.
A photograph of Julia Holden's painting 'Blue Building' displayed on a billboard on Taranaki Street, Wellington.
A written history of the 124-126 Cashel Street, site of the Anderson's Building.
A written history of 53 Cathedral Square, the Sevicke-Jones Building.
A video recording of a lecture presented by Professor Stefano Pampanin as part of the 2011 University of Canterbury Earthquake Lecture Series.
A written history of 222 High Street, known as the "Stewart Dawson" building.
A photograph of Julia Holden's painting 'Blue Building' displayed on a billboard in Auckland.
A close-up photograph of Julia Holden's painting 'Blue Building' displayed on a billboard in Auckland.
A written history of 161 Cashel Street, the Hotel Grand Chancellor.
A photograph of Julia Holden's painting 'Blue Building' displayed on a billboard in Auckland.
‘Moa's Ark' set sail 80 million years ago. David Bellamy becomes an ancient mariner and retraces the voyage of the islands of New Zealand (using contemporary science as his guide). In this first episode he finds out why New Zealand is called the Shaky Isles, gets face to face with the "living fossil" the tuatara, is inspired by meat pies, and discovers geography as he competes in the annual Coast to Coast race over the Southern Alps — with directional and gorse eradication aid coming from legendary race organiser Robin Judkins.
Friday 22 February 2013. File reference: CCL-2013 -02-22-IMG_4026 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Workmen approach the elevator shaft of the CTV building - 05 March 2011 The CTV building claimed 115 lives when it collapsed in a pile of smoking rubble on 22 February 2011 during a 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch and only the lift shaft was left standing.
A view after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch 22 February 2011. Corner of Barbadoes and Kilmore Streets. So sad to see history die - both buildings and business.
The streets are quiet – a parked car sits outside Dalgety’s, a lone tram rumbles towards the tram sheds and a tired delivery horse stands with his head bowed, eating chaff from his feed…
“To settle what seems to be a somewhat vexed question, a representative of the Lyttelton Times yesterday made inquiries among a number of the Pilgrims with regard to the authenticity, or otherwise,…
File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_9693 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
This will open up the street to the Avon River
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Cotter & Co. Building on High Street which has survived the earthquakes even though all the buildings around it have been demolished.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Forsyth Barr building at 764 Colombo Street (left) and 779 Colombo Street (right)".
Smoke billowing from the remains of the collapsed Canterbury Television Building on Madras Street. Below, emergency personnel can be seen searching the rubble for trapped people.
A New Zealand Fire Service personnel member at the site of the collapsed Canterbury Television Building on Madras Street, holding a can of "V" energy drink.
A photograph of a block of earthquake-damaged buildings on Manchester Street. The walls of the Westende Jewellers Building on the right have crumbled, exposing the second storey rooms.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Isaac House, also known as the National Bank building at 779 Colombo Street".
The Canterbury Provincial Council buildings on Durham Street. The word "Clear" has been spray painted on one section of the building in pink spray paint.
People will be told by Christmas if they are in unsafe buildings that have the same flaw as the CTV building, which collapsed killing 115 people in the Christchurch earthquake.
The reality of just how many historic buildings will be lost to the Christchurch earthquake is now becoming apparent with Civil Defence adding another 123 buildings to the demolition list.