Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "132-138 Lichfield Street about to be demolished".
Army and fire service personnel looking on from beside cordon fencing on Kilmore Street as a digger demolishes the Piko Wholefoods building. Behind the fencing is another badly damaged building.
Detail of the partially-demolished Henry Africa's building. The photographer comments, "A building housing a restaurant and a great little neighbourhood bar is finally coming down because of earthquake damage. Bricks coming down".
Detail of the partially-demolished Henry Africa's building. The photographer comments, "A building housing a restaurant and a great little neighbourhood bar is finally coming down because of earthquake damage. Bricks coming down".
Detail of the partially-demolished Henry Africa's building. The photographer comments, "A building housing a restaurant and a great little neighbourhood bar is finally coming down because of earthquake damage. The doorway still stands".
A photograph of an excavator demolishing a building on Colombo Street, taken from the intersection of Armagh Street.
A digger and a crane with a wrecking ball demolishing the St Elmo Courts building on Hereford Street.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of a demolished building at 2 London Street, Lyttelton".
A photograph of a partially-demolished building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "131 Peterborough Street".
A digger and a crane with a wrecking ball demolishing the St Elmo Courts building on Hereford Street.
The partially-demolished Henry Africa's building. The photographer comments, "Janes Wine Bar still stands, but not for long".
The partially-demolished Henry Africa's building. The photographer comments, "Janes Wine Bar still stands, but not for long".
Still standing in Jan 2011 - but the buildings future is unknown - It is probably destined to be demolished.
A digger demolishing the Ozone Dressing Sheds building. The photographer comments, "This is the end of the Ozone Dressing Sheds built in 1914. The two storey Ozone Cafe, which was a hotel, will be given it's coup de grace on Friday. They were gutted in a spectacular fire in 1922, but were unable to be saved after the Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011".
A video showing part of the demolition of the Ozone Hotel in New Brighton. Steve Taylor comments "She put up a good fight. The Ozone in New Brighton was damaged in the February earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. Here is the main corner of the structure being, as they say, deconstructed. At the end there is a reverent bow by the excavator. Just before this the claw had caught on the floor/ceiling and the whole building shook from side to side, but it still stayed in place."
The damaged Sumner Surf Lifesaving Club building. The rear of the building has been demolished, and spray-painted notices on the walls read "No entry, not safe" and "No parking, not safe".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Forsyth Barr building and PricewaterhouseCoopers building. It was recently announced that PricewaterhouseCoopers will be demolished as it is uneconomic to restore, and we understand Forsyth Barr is still under discussion".
A view through cordon fencing to the corner of Manchester and Southwark Streets. In the foreground, a building has been demolished.
A photograph of Ross Becker standing next to the site of a demolished building on London Street in Lyttelton.
A photograph of a digger demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "96 Gloucester Street".
A photograph of a digger demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "96 Gloucester Street".
A photograph of a digger demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "96 Gloucester Street".
A photograph of a digger demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "96 Gloucester Street".
A photograph of a digger demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "96 Gloucester Street".
A photograph of a digger demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "96 Gloucester Street".
People listening to Nick Draper playing one of Gap Filler's painted pianos on the site of a demolished building.
A photograph of a building being demolished. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "753-757 Colombo Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A partially-demolished building on the corner of Gloucester and Colombo Streets".
A photograph of a digger demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "96 Gloucester Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of a demolished building at 6-8 London Street, Lyttelton".