The mirrors from Sergio's Menswear are still intact on the wall of the adjoining building after the demolition of Sergio's.
The mirrors from Sergio's Menswear are still intact on the wall of the adjoining building after the demolition of Sergio's.
A tribute left on the cordon fence around the CTV Building site. The card reads, "Heather Meadows, 'Our Heather', 'Our Mum'
A tribute left on the cordon fence around the CTV Building site. The card has a poem entitled "Message from Christchurch".
The mirrors from Sergio's Menswear are still intact on the wall of the adjoining building after the demolition of Sergio's.
A photograph of shipping containers supporting the facade of the Excelsior Hotel on Manchester Street.
A photograph of shipping containers supporting the facade of the Excelsior Hotel on Manchester Street.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 14 August 2013.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 21 August 2013.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 22 November 2013.
A photograph of the badly-damaged building at 128 Manchester Street. Liv Worsnop's Zen Garden installation is in the foreground.
A photograph of the badly-damaged building at 128 Manchester Street. Liv Worsnop's Zen Garden installation is in the foreground.
A photograph of Mike Hewson's artwork, 'Deconstruction', being installed on the walkway between Ballantyne's and the former bus exchange building.
The site of a demolished building set up and waiting for one of Gap Filler's painted pianos to be delivered.
The exposed wall of a building on Colombo Street has been painted with a mural advertising Sedley Wells MusicWorks.
A photograph of building rubble on a cleared site on Tuam Street. Graffiti can be seen on the concrete wall.
A photograph of the badly-damaged building at 128 Manchester Street. Liv Worsnop's Zen Garden installation is in the foreground.
A photograph of the badly-damaged building at 128 Manchester Street. Liv Worsnop's Zen Garden installation is in the foreground.
A photograph looking east down Armagh Street from Victoria Square. The Forsyth Barr building can be seen in the distance.
A photograph of a window of the IRD building. Directions to a rear entrance have been written on the window.
A photograph of a window of the IRD building. Directions to a rear entrance have been written on the window.
A photograph of the badly-damaged building at 128 Manchester Street. Liv Worsnop's Zen Garden installation is in the foreground.
A week ago this building was intact, now partially demolished. Will be an empty site in a week or two.
Whole document is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland until Feb. 2014. The increasing scale of losses from earthquake disasters has reinforced the need for property owners to become proactive in seismic risk reduction programs. However, despite advancement in seismic design methods and legislative frameworks, building owners are often reluctant to adopt mitigation measures required to reduce earthquake losses. The magnitude of building collapses from the recent Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand shows that owners of earthquake prone buildings (EPBs) are not adopting appropriate risk mitigation measures in their buildings. Owners of EPBs are found unwilling or lack motivation to adopt adequate mitigation measures that will reduce their vulnerability to seismic risks. This research investigates how to increase the likelihood of building owners undertaking appropriate mitigation actions that will reduce their vulnerability to earthquake disaster. A sequential two-phase mixed methods approach was adopted for the research investigation. Multiple case studies approach was adopted in the first qualitative phase, followed by the second quantitative research phase that includes the development and testing of a framework. The research findings reveal four categories of critical obstacles to building owners‘ decision to adopt earthquake loss prevention measures. These obstacles include perception, sociological, economic and institutional impediments. Intrinsic and extrinsic interventions are proposed as incentives for overcoming these barriers. The intrinsic motivators include using information communication networks such as mass media, policy entrepreneurs and community engagement in risk mitigation. Extrinsic motivators comprise the use of four groups of incentives namely; financial, regulatory, technological and property market incentives. These intrinsic and extrinsic interventions are essential for enhancing property owners‘ decisions to voluntarily adopt appropriate earthquake mitigation measures. The study concludes by providing specific recommendations that earthquake risk mitigation managers, city councils and stakeholders involved in risk mitigation in New Zealand and other seismic risk vulnerable countries could consider in earthquake risk management. Local authorities could adopt the framework developed in this study to demonstrate a combination of incentives and motivators that yield best-valued outcomes. Consequently, actions can be more specific and outcomes more effective. The implementation of these recommendations could offer greater reasons for the stakeholders and public to invest in building New Zealand‘s built environment resilience to earthquake disasters.
Maybe it should be titled "Pray Here"! The old church buildings next to the Christchurch Basilica (Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament) have been demolished and replaced with ANOTHER Wilson's Car Park. Hundreds of sites in the city where buildings have been demolished after the earthquakes have been replaced in the short term by car parks!
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The back of the old Telecom building in Hereford Street, viewed from Worcester Street".
A photograph of a painting on a temporary facade of a building on the corner of Hereford Street and Manchester Street.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 July 2013 entitled, "Royal Restoration".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 6 July 2013 entitled, "Michael's Mother, Mary".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 25 October 2013 entitled, "Sesquicentennial of Sanctuary".