A video of an interview with John Haynes, about his experiences during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Haynes was in the Forsyth Barr building when the earthquake struck. Using his skills as trained mountain guide, Haynes belayed fourteen people down three and a half floors to safety.
A view through a gap in the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza Hotel to the Forsyth Barr building.
A photograph showing the top of the partially deconstructed Mutual Funds Life building and the Forsyth Barr building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Now that the grass has been mown in Victoria Square, this view is almost the way we remember it".
Army personnel at a cordon checkpoint on Colombo Street, north of Cathedral Square. The Forsyth Barr building is in the background.
Members of the public take photographs of the deconstruction of the Price Waterhouse Coopers building (left) and the Forsyth Barr building (right).
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cathedral".
A view towards the Isaac Theatre Royal on Gloucester Street. In the background is the PWC building and the Forsyth Barr building (left).
In Christchurch, people have been marking one year on from the deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cranes dominating the sky in the central city".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Colombo and Armagh Streets looking south-east".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Gloucester and Colombo Streets, looking north".
A truck for carrying demolition rubble parked on Colombo Street, with the Forsyth Barr building visible in the background. Decorations from Christmas 2010 are still hanging from lamp posts.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Gloucester and Colombo Streets, looking north-east".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Colombo and Armagh Streets looking east".
A digger being used to clear the rubble from the Convention Centre on Peterborough Street. In the background, the Town Hall can be seen, as well as the Forsyth Barr building.
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).
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over Victoria Square with the Forsyth Barr Building, the Victoria Apartments and the PriceWaterHouseCoopers Building visible.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "111 Gloucester Street, formerly the site of the MFL Building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Colombo and Gloucester Streets looking north".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "121-125 Gloucester Street (the former site of State Theatre - later DFS Souvenirs)".
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 23 December 2012, looking over Victoria Square with the Forsyth Barr Building and the Victoria Apartments visible. The PriceWaterHouseCoopers Building has been demolished.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view across Cathedral Square looking north-east from the roof of the Ibis Hotel in Hereford Street".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "CBD, New Regent Street (lower left), Cathedral Square (left centre) and Provincial Council Chambers (right centre)".
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A photograph taken from the top of the BNZ building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "From left to right are the Brannigans building (under demolition), former Government Life Building, Farmers building, MFL building (under demolition), Forsyth Barr building (staying) , PricewaterhouseCoopers building (going) and the roof of the cathedral in the foreground".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "PriceWaterhouseCoopers Building (under demolition, lower centre), Clarendon Tower (under demolition upper centre), New Regent Street (lower left) and New Press building at the left end of New Regent Street".