A photograph taken inside Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace. Broken furniture and rubbish litter the ground.
Aspects of Christchurch life after the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, modelled on acts performed at the Buskers' Festival being held in Christchurch. Include `Silt walking'through liquefaction; 'Orange zone', representing the paralysis of homeowners whose properties were classified as 'orange', or of undecided status; 'Jugglers "Marryatt" and "Red Zone"': the Christchurch CEO, Tony Marryatt, juggles with money, his large pay rise, while the red-zoned householder juggles with unattractive options; 'The boy [CBD] with red tape all over him', referring to the cordon which was strangling the Central Business District; the columnist Joe Bennett with his dog, refusing to move from his house in Lyttelton, a cause celebre of resistance to the earthquake authorities in those days. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Saudi Students staying at Donegal Irish House after fleeing the Canterbury earthquake zone. From left Abdullah Al-Harbi, Muhanad Al-Khateb, Youssef Adshwaish and Mofarh Al-Hrooby".
Spray-painted writing on the side of a car parking building reads "0 cars". The photographer comments, "Strangely and appropriately this graffiti was on a car park. In fact the graffiti was 100% correct as the car park is in the Christchurch earthquake red zone and there should be zero cars now inside it. It may have been put on by an anti car protester or just an indication that the car park is empty. One of the suggestions for the City plan for the rebuilt Christchurch was for a pedestrian and cycle only area, which also fits in with 0 CARS".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 19 March 2011 entitled, "Day 26, 8am - Termination of Trees & Proliferation of Permits".
A photograph of a flat on Poplar Street taken during the Residential Access Project. The project gave residents temporary access within the red-zone cordon in order to retrieve items from their homes.
More than a houndred people with businesses in Christchurch's CBD have stormed a cordon into the Red Zone, in frustration at still not being allowed access to their buildings - one month on from the earthquake.
As life-changing experiences go, the earthquake on 22 February 2011 was fairly significant. On the one hand, our house was red-zoned (but still liveable), friends lost their lives and the city lost many of the old buildings that, for me, … Continue reading →
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 March 2011 entitled, "Day 33 - Perambulating in the Park".
A photograph of the house at 410 Oxford Terrace. The grass has been mowed but the dead grass has not been removed.
A photograph of the house number spray-painted on one of the windows of 468 Oxford Terrace.
A photograph of Doug Sexton holding Small Gardens. Small Gardens featured his garden at 378 Oxford Street.
A photograph of one side of Siobhan Murphy's house at 436 Oxford Terrace.
Damage to New Brighton Road. The photographer comments, "Would you believe that the up and down dirt track on the right is actually a main road?".
The Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's "Community Earthquake Update" bulletin, published on Friday 24 June 2011.
A photograph of workers from the Residential Access Project walking down Tuam Street. The project gave residents temporary access within the red-zone cordon in order to retrieve items from their homes.
It is well established that urban green areas provide a wide range of social, aesthetic, environmental and economic benefits. The importance of urban green spaces has been known for decades; however the relationship between urban livability and green areas, as incorporated in overall urban green structure, has become the focus of international studies during the last 10 to 15 years. The spatial structure of green space systems has important consequences for urban form; configuring urban resources, controlling urban size, improving ecological quality of urban areas and preventing or mitigating natural disasters. However, in the field of architecture or urban design, very little work has been done to investigate the potential for built form to define and differentiate the edge to a green corridor ... This thesis therefore poses the hypothesis that architecture and urban design critically mediate between city and green corridor, through intensification and definition of the built edge, as a means of contributing to an ecological city form.
In what used to be sections with houses and yards. Between late 2011 and 2014 the houses (well 95% of them) were removed due to land dropping in the 2011 earthquakes and the proximity of the Avon River, tidal in this area.
A digitally manipulated photograph of the partially-demolished Ozone Hotel. The photographer comments, "As if a deadly disease is moving out from Christchurch City red zone, the heritage buildings are being put down".
A video of a tour of the Christchurch central city Red Zone. The video includes footage of Cambridge Terrace, the Copthorne Hotel on Colombo Street, Gloucester Street, the Government Life Building in Cathedral Square, the Grant Thornton Building in Cathedral Square, the ChristChurch Cathedral, the new Press Building on Gloucester Street, the Design and Arts College building on Worcester Street, the new Westende Jewellers Building, Hereford Street, the Westpac Trust Building, the BNZ Building, the Holiday Inn, Lichfield Street, High Street, and Cathedral Junction.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 April 2011 entitled, "Day 49 - last day behind the cordon".
A video of a tour of the inside of the Press building in Cathedral Square which was severely damaged by the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of a blossoming tree and letterbox at 450 Oxford Terrace. In the background is the house at the same address.
A photograph of the house at 390 Oxford Terrace. Grass and other weeds have grown up through the cracks between the pavers in front.
A photograph of Doug Sexton's garden at 378 Oxford Terrace, now overgrown. The photographer comments, "Sexton's garden was once published in Small Gardens".
A photograph of Doug Sexton's garden at 378 Oxford Terrace, now overgrown. The photographer comments, "Sexton's garden was once published in Small Gardens".
A photograph of the house at 58 Bangor Street. A green sticker on the door indicates that it has been inspected and is safe to enter.
A photograph of the house at 58 Bangor Street. A green sticker on the door indicates that it has been inspected and is safe to enter.
A photograph of a block of apartments at 2 Rees Street. The numbers of the apartments have been spray-painted on the walls in front.
A photograph of the house at 396 Oxford Terrace. The hedges at the front have begun to overgrow. Plastic sheeting is lying over the path.