A digital copy of a painting by Julia Holden. The painting is of an excavator and a large mound of building rubble. In the background is the badly-damaged Farmers car park building on Gloucester Street.
Diggers parked in front of rubble from the Smiths City car parking building on Dundas Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a block of buildings in central Christchurch. The basement of the buildings have collapsed and the concrete blocks have spilled into the car park. Large cracks have also formed in between the blocks in the walls of the building to the left.
A photograph of a partially-collapsed brick wall and piles of bricks in a car park on Armagh Street. Wooden bracing is supporting one side of the building.
A crushed car on Lichfield Street. Bricks from the above building fell during the quake onto the parked car. Fortunately, nobody was inside.
A digitally manipulated image of a direction signpost, with every sign pointing to parking. The photographer comments, "With around 70% of the buildings to be demolished in the CBD, Christchurch, New Zealand will be the biggest parking lot in the world for a few years".
The painted label for one of the CTV Building's car parks.
A photograph of a flight of concrete stairs salvaged from a building and placed in a car park in the Christchurch central city. Steel reinforcement can be seen sticking out of the concrete.
A photograph of emergency management personnel standing in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. In the background rubble from an earthquake-damaged building has been stacked in a pile. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases.
A photograph of emergency management personnel standing in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. In the background rubble from an earthquake-damaged building has been stacked in a pile. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases.
A photograph of the site of a demolished building in the city centre. Remnants of the building can be seen on the side of the building to the left. A Wilson Parking sign indicates that the space is going to be used for parking.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "43 Lichfield Street. Panels fell off the car park of this building and fell to the street below killing a woman sitting in a parked car".
A photograph of rubble in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases with messages spray-painted on the sides.
The streets are quiet – a parked car sits outside Dalgety’s, a lone tram rumbles towards the tram sheds and a tired delivery horse stands with his head bowed, eating chaff from his feed…
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition of Hotel Grand Chancellor car park".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition of Hotel Grand Chancellor car park".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition of Hotel Grand Chancellor car park".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition of Hotel Grand Chancellor car park".
A car park behind the HSBC building on Cambridge Terrace (view from Gloucester Street).
A photograph of a car parked off Montreal Street which has been crushed by bricks falling from an earthquake-damaged building.
A photograph of a car parked off Montreal Street which has been crushed by bricks falling from an earthquake-damaged building.
A photograph of members of the public walking along Gloucester Street near the Colombo Street intersection. In the background, the site of the demolished Farmers Building can be seen as well as the car park to the left.
The Croydon House Bed and Breakfast Hotel on Armagh Street. The east wall has collapsed, exposing the building's interior and spilling masonry into the car park. The car park has been cordoned off by yellow tape which reads, "Please keep out".
A photograph of rubble in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases. Two emergency management personnel are standing in the foreground.
A photograph showing excavators parked just off Lichfield Street, with the IRD building and a car parking building in the background.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Liquefaction covers the car park by the Sumner Cob Cottage".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor car park demolition".
A photograph of rubble in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases. An emergency management team member is standing to the right.
A digitally manipulated photograph of the car parking building on the corner of Manchester and Gloucester Streets. The photographer comments, "Whilst on a tour of the Christchurch earthquake red zone we passed this car park, which I always liked due to its American outgoing feel
A photograph of cars parked on the site of a demolished building on Hereford Street.