A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rubble from the demolished Hannifin's Building on the corner of Hereford and High Streets".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rubble from the demolished Hannifin's Building on the corner of Hereford and High Streets".
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the basement of a building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall".
A photograph of rubble from demolished buildings on St Asaph Street. An excavator has been parked on the road in front.
Construction workers with high visibility clothing and hard hats assemble a crane on High Street to help demolish the Westpac Building.
The site of a demolished building on Colombo Street, where the Gap Filler Community Chess Board is going to be built.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rubble from the demolished Hannifin's Building on the corner of Hereford and High Streets".
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the last of a building on Gloucester Street, next to the Dolls House night club.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "10-18 Bedford Row, now demolished. The building behind the tree is 24 Bedford Row".
Seen through the cordon fence, the exposed wall of the Rangiora Bakery where the the building to the right has been demolished.
Seen through the cordon fence, the exposed wall of the Rangiora Bakery where the the building to the right has been demolished.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The cranes working on the Clarendon Tower and the Grant Thornton building, viewed from Cathedral Square. Government Life building (to be demolished) on the extreme right".
A photograph of the collapsed PGC Building, taken from Oxford Terrace across the Avon River. An excavator is sitting on top of the rubble from the building and is working to demolish the part of the building which is still standing.
Colombo Street, north of the Square, looking north. Although many buildings have been demolished, large parts of the street are still behind cordons.
A digger sits beside rubble from a demolished building on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Springfield Road. The photographer comments, "Demolition debris".
A photograph looking north down Montreal Street towards the partially-demolished St Elmo Courts building. Two cranes are parked to the left.
A photograph looking south down Madras Street towards Latimer Square. Remains of a partially-demolished building can be seen on the right.
One of Gap Filler's painted pianos painted on the site of a demolished building. The piano has been painted in multicoloured squares.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of a demolished building on the corner of Chester Street and Madras Street".
One of Gap Filler's painted pianos painted on the site of a demolished building. The piano has been painted in multicoloured squares.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "All buildings in this view from Manchester Street (except the All Seasons Hotel) to be demolished".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "141 Gloucester Street being demolished and the Isaac Theatre Royal, Gloucester Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The basement of the Louis Vuitton Building on the corner of Colombo Street and Cathedral Square, exposed now the building has been demolished. The Christ Church Cathedral can be seen in the background".
A photograph submitted by Raymond Morris to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "The New Zealand Express Co. Ltd. building (Manchester Courts) built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester and Hereford Sts. In its time it was Christchurch’s tallest office building. This painting is from the Raymond Morris Collection of earthquake demolished buildings.".
An empty section on the corner of Cashel and Colombo Streets where buildings have been demolished. In the background, a "drummer boy" dummy dressed in a hi-vis jacket sits on top of one of the still-standing High Street buildings. Written on the back of the building is "Merry Christmas Christchurch Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum".
An aerial photograph of the Copthorne Hotel on Colombo Street. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "When the PricewaterhouseCoopers building is demolished, the Copthorne Central Hotel will be alone on the block".
Plant beds made out of corrugated iron, greening the empty building sites along Colombo Street. These were placed here by Greening the Rubble, a community project in Christchurch to create temporary public parks and gardens on the sites of demolished buildings.
The Windsor Hotel, on the corner of Montreal Street and Armagh Street. The building was red-stickered after the September 2010 earthquake and demolished after the February 2011 earthquake. Beside the hotel, construction has begun on a modern, tilt-slab building.
A view over the top of a cordon fence. A digger sits on a mound of dirt, and water fills the former basement of the ANZ building on Hereford Street. The partially-demolished BNZ building can be seen in the background.
A view down High Street, looking north-west through the cordon fence near the Tuam Street intersection. On the left a line of shipping containers support the facade of a damaged building. Rubble from demolished buildings can be seen in the distance.