The finished 10m2 office building, now the Gap Filler Headquarters, with the Coffee Zone shack in the background.
A photograph of an empty site and badly-damaged buildings taken from behind a fence on Madras Street. In the distance is the old Post Office building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The northern aspect of the Cathedral hidden behind the container wall and the cafe".
A photograph of an empty site and badly-damaged buildings, taken from behind a fence on Madras Street. In the distance is the old Post Office building.
A photograph of an empty site and badly-damaged buildings taken from behind a fence on Madras Street. In the distance is the old Post Office building.
A photograph of an empty site and badly-damaged buildings taken from behind a fence on Madras Street. In the distance is the old Post Office building.
Look from the cordon fences on to empty demolition sites Tuam Street. The Alice in Videoland building can be seen on left with the Wespac building and Holiday Inn in the background.
Photo of the demolition of Aoraki Building taken by John Glennie, 14th of January 2012.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A large pile of concrete rubble from a demolition site in Kilmore Street. Forsyth Barr building in the background".
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 16 July 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 4 July 2012.
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Monday 20 February 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 21 September 2012.
The performance of retrofitted unreinforced masonry (URM) bearing wall buildings in Christchurch is examined, considering ground motion recordings from multiple events. Suggestions for how the experiences in Christchurch might be relevant to retrofit practices common to New Zealand, U.S. and Canada are also provided. Whilst the poor performance of unretrofitted URM buildings in earthquakes is well known, much less is known about how retrofitted URM buildings perform when subjected to strong ground shaking.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from 223 Tuam Street across 3 blocks of clear land (Tuam-Ash-Lichfield-Bedford Row) to the IRD building on Cashel Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new Press building on Gloucester Street at dusk. The central city red zone now has office workers and lights on".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view of Real Groovy from the top of Alice in Videoland".
The MedLab building on Kilmore Street. Many of the windows are open or have been broken. Inside, ceiling tiles are missing and swaths of fabric hang from concrete beams.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "36-40 Cathedral Square and 103-105 Worcester Street with the new Press building in the background".
Broken gutters on the Christ Church Cathedral where the roof has fallen away. Damage to the brickwork can also be seen to the right.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Colombo, Hereford and High Streets. Looking north towards Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gough House on Hereford Street. The DIA Building to the left is already soft stripped and ready for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cranes working on the Clarendon Tower and the Grant Thornton building, viewed from Cathedral Square".
Three excavators sit on top of the demolition rubble where the Crowne Plaza Hotel once stood. In the background are the Forsyth Barr building (left), the Victoria Apartments (centre), and the Environment Court building (right).
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Isaac House (aka National Bank) on the corner of Armagh and Colombo Streets".
Photo of the demolition of Aoraki Building taken by John Glennie, 14th of January 2012.
Photo of the demolition of Aoraki Building taken by John Glennie, 14th of January 2012.
Photo of the demolition of Aoraki Building taken by John Glennie, 14th of January 2012.
Photo of the demolition of Aoraki Building taken by John Glennie, 14th of January 2012.
Members of Gap Filler and volunteers posing for a photograph in front of the half complete 10m2 office building in Sydenham.