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A photograph of damaged buildings on Gladstone Quay and Norwich Quay.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "National Bank building, corner Gloucester and Colombo Streets".

ANZ Bank Chambers from corner Lichfield, High and Manchester Streets

A colour photograph, probably from the 2000s, of the ANZ Bank Chambers. The presence of the gift shop Inspirations and the lack of a massage parlour indicate that the photograph was taken after the purchase of the building by Andrew Hodge and Craig McWilliams.

Balancing (EQPB) Act: Heritage Preservation, Regulations and their Impact …

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

In the wake of the Canterbury earthquakes, one of the biggest threats to our heritage buildings is the risk of earthquakes and the associated drive to strengthen or demolish buildings. Can Small Town NZ balance the requirements of the EQPB legislation and economic realities of their places? The government’s priority is on safety of building occupants and citizens in the streets. However, maintaining and strengthening privately-owned heritage buildings is often cost prohibitive. Hence, heritage regulation has frequently been perceived as interfering with private property rights, especially when heritage buildings occupy a special place in the community becoming an important place for people (i.e. public benefits are larger than private). We investigate several case studies where building owners have been given green light to demolish heritage listed buildings to make way for modern developments. In two of the case studies developers provided evidence of unaffordable strengthening costs. A new trend that has emerged is a voluntary offer of contributing to an incentive fund to assist with heritage preservation of other buildings. This is a unique example where private owners offer incentives (via council controlled organisations) instead of it being purely the domain of the central or local governments.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "154 Cashel Street - Southern Star building".

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A cordoned off area in Christ's College where bricks from the heritage buildings have been removed and stacked. Scaffolding can be seen on the building in the distance and a prefab building to the right which was being used as classrooms while the buildings are still unsafe to enter.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Press Building, Cathedral Square. Top floor collapsed during the February 22 earthquake".

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A photograph of heritage building material stacked for preservation in Cashel Mall.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Poplar Crescent on Cambridge Terrace. This building was built in 1929 as part of the Edmonds Band Rotunda".

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A photograph of a fire-damaged building in High Street. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Tuam Street and High Street shops, CBD. By Alice's".

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A photograph of a fire-damaged building in High Street. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Tuam Street and High Street shops, CBD. By Alice's".

BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 180

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Old Municipal Council Chambers in Worcester Street".

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A photograph of the earthquake-damaged Canterbury Provincial Council buildings on Durham Street.

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Damage to the Kenton Chambers building. Diagonal cracking between the windows shows that the building has suffered major structural damage.

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Damage to the Kenton Chambers building. Diagonal cracking between the windows shows that the building has suffered major structural damage.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Kenton Chambers, 190 Hereford Street - these heaps of shingle in front of the building will be spread over the street to protect the street when the building is demolished".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The construction of this window frame at Cranmer Court is clearly seen when the exterior stone has collapsed in the earthquake".