An infographic showing wartime tunnels found under the Lyttelton Time Ball Station.
The disco ball hanging above Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat" dance floor.
A crane with a wrecking ball demolishing St Elmo Courts on Hereford Street.
A photograph of Whole House Reuse item 113. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.
A thumbnail photograph of Whole House Reuse item 113, cropped for the catalogue. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.
Volunteers setting up wire for the disco ball on Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat".
A photograph of visitors to CityUps playing with a large inflatable ball. The ball is part of an installation titled CHCH2061, created by architecture students from the University of Auckland. CityUps was a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014.
For six weeks after the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake millions of litres of raw sewage - along with lots of liquefaction - poured into the Avon and Heathcote Rivers. A team of biologists quickly got to work to measure the impact of this catastrophe on life in the Heathcote River and as they tell Alison Ballance, they were surprised by what they recorded over the next few months.
A photograph of Whole House Reuse item 268. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Girls High School with the brightly painted new Library building in the background".
A thumbnail photograph of Whole House Reuse item 268, cropped for the catalogue. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.
The disco ball suspended above the Gap Filler "Dance-o-mat" dance floor in Re:Start mall.
A digger and a crane with a wrecking ball demolishing the St Elmo Courts building on Hereford Street.
A digger and a crane with a wrecking ball demolishing the St Elmo Courts building on Hereford Street.
A felt heart on a fence in Lyttelton with the Time Ball and the word "Forever" stitched onto it.
For many years the Heathcote-Avon estuary was the dumping ground for Christchurch's sewage. Then, in 2010, the wastewater was diverted well out to sea, via a long pipe. David Schiel from the University of Canterbury and John Zeldis from NIWA were investigating the effects of this diversion on the health of estuary when the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes happened, re-engineering both the estuary and their experiments.
A photograph of a model posing inside an inflated, transparent ball as part of the In Your Face installation at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a model posing inside an inflated, transparent ball as part of the In Your Face installation at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a model posing inside an inflated, transparent ball as part of the In Your Face installation at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a model posing inside an inflated, transparent ball as part of the In Your Face installation at LUXCITY.
A crane with a wrecking ball demolishing St Elmo Courts on Hereford Street. Behind it is the Christchurch City Council Building.
Aerial image of Lyttelton taken by the Royal New Zealand Air Force for the Earthquake Commission.
A photograph of people watching a model posing in a large inflatable ball as part of the In Your Face installation at LUXCITY.
A photograph of the damaged ball from the Timeball Station. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Timeball Station demolition site, Lyttelton".
A photograph of the damaged ball from the Timeball Station. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Timeball Station demolition site, Lyttelton".
A photograph of people watching a model posing in a large inflatable ball as part of the In Your Face installation at LUXCITY.
The pen is mightier than the sword – and before the days of ball-points, one needed ink bottles to fire up their weapon of choice – that being the quill, the dip pen or the fountain pen. Ink bottles are … Continue reading →
A PDF copy of ten brightly coloured sticker designs from the All Right? 'Compliments' campaign. Each sticker contains a unique compliment, such as, "You're sparklier than a disco ball".
Scientists are just beginning to understand why the recent Canterbury earthquakes 'punched above their size', and their findings could change international scientific thinking about earthquakes. Alison Ballance talks with GNS seismologists Martin Reyners and Bill Fry to find out more.
A felt heart on a fence in Lyttelton with the Time Ball and the word "Forever" stitched onto it. Next to the heart is a sign reading, "Danger. Unsafe building and grounds. No admittance".