A photograph of people dancing at the Gap Filler Dance-O-Mat.
A photograph of people dancing at the Gap Filler Dance-O-Mat.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Two months after the Canterbury Earthquake Manchester Street between Gloucester and Hereford Streets is still a way from being sorted".
A video of the Christchurch central city recorded shortly after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. In the video, Press reporter Olivia Carville describes the experiences of people within the central city. There is also footage of a woman being rescued from the ChristChurch Cathedral, people trapped in the Press building, damaged buildings on Colombo Street and Manchester Street, people evacuating the Forsyth Barr building using a rope, and people gathering in Latimer Square.
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".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. A deserted Manchester Street in the CBD".
Damaged facade? That's the decorative mural of this restaurant located on Manchester Street in Christchurch!
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. A church on the corner of Manchester Street and Kilmore Street".
Side view of the former Majestic Theatre on the corner of High, Lichfield and Manchester Streets.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Demolition workers on the corner of Manchester and Worcester Streets".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch earthquake. Demolition workers on the corner of Manchester and Worcester Streets".
Copy of a file photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The New Zealand Express Company's new building, corner of Hereford Street and Manchester Street. Electric lighting, pumping, elevators, May & Otway's fire alarms, bells and telephones, supplied by Messrs Turnbull & Jones Ltd. Manchester courts MLC building from The Weekly Press 'New Zealand Exhibition Year Special Industrial & Commercial Number' December 1906".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect a historic building, now the 'Octagon' restaurant on the corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect a historic building, now the 'Octagon' restaurant on the corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect a historic building, now the 'Octagon' restaurant on the corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Looking over the cordon fence towards the demolition work on the Manchester Securities House on Gloucester Street.
Looking inside the cordon fence towards the demolition work on the Manchester Securities House on Gloucester Street.
Looking inside the cordon fence towards the demolition work on the Manchester Securities House on Gloucester Street.
Real estate sign on a building with a missing wall in Manchester Street reads "Watch this Hotspot!
Manchester Courts, a seven-storey building on the corner of Hereford and Manchester Streets, is a category one historic place built in 1905-1906 that up until the 7.1 earthquake, housed offices. News of the scheduled demolition provoked an emotional response from the people of Christchurch. UPDATE 14 October 2010: A group of residents is campaig...