West face of Warners Hotel

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A colour photograph of Warners Hotel following the 22 February 2011 earthquake. While the external damage does not appear extensive, the building has since been demolished.

Byron Williams WEMO Photograph 10

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A photograph of the partially-demolished Westende Jewellers Building on the corner of Worcester and Manchester Streets. A wire fence has been placed around the building as a cordon. Behind it sits a Southern Demolition excavator.

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A digger clearing rubble from the demolished Strategy House on Montreal Street. Part of the road has been cordoned off with wire fences and the Victoria Clock Tower can be seen in the distance.

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A photograph of members of the public walking along the edge of the cordon on the intersection of Colombo and Gloucester Streets. In the background, the Forsyth Barr Building can be seen as well as the partially-demolished PricewaterhouseCoopers Building.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Corner of Victoria, Montreal and Salisbury Streets. The site on the right is where Strategy House was before urgent demolition. The large building in the centre, at 123 Victoria Street, is to be demolished".

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A brick wall which collapsed onto a digger on the site of a demolished building on Bedford Row".

Photograph of Gap Filler project 18 (27)

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A mini golf course on a the site of a demolished building. It has been built by Gap Filler out of stones and green felt.

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "An unusual perspective on the partially-demolished Hotel Grand Chancellor. Taken from the top of the BNZ building".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Community House, 141 Hereford Street. Note the pile of gravel ready to be spread prior to demolishing the building".

Photograph of Gap Filler project 18 (28)

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A mini golf course on a the site of a demolished building. It has been built by Gap Filler out of stones and green felt.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 16 (6)

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A volunteer constructs benches out of recycled material from demolished building. These benches will serve as seats for Gap Filler's temporary cinema, 'The Night Club'.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 15 (28)

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Volunteers from the Student Volunteer Army sweeping the site of a demolished building. This is where Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat" is to be built.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 15 (24)

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Volunteers from the Student Volunteer Army sweeping the site of a demolished building. This is where Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat" is to be built.

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Students from the University of Canterbury preparing a demolished building site in Sydenham. This is where Gap Filler's Community Chess Board is to be built.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 15 (26)

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Volunteers from the Student Volunteer Army sweeping the site of a demolished building. This is where Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat" is to be built.

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An excavator bunching up scrap metal as part of efforts to clear the site of the demolished Hillary and Marshall Limited building on Manchester Street.

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A band performing on the site of a demolished building in Sydenham. A member of the band is playing one of Gap Filler's painted pianos.

Photographs of Gap Filler project 10 (8)

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Students from the University of Canterbury preparing a demolished building site in Sydenham. This is where Gap Filler's Community Chess Board is to be built.

Mike Cameron WEMO Photograph 10

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A photograph of the site of a demolished house on the corner of Springfield Road and Bealey Avenue. "No go" has been spray-painted on the earthquake-damaged fence. Wire fencing and police tape has been placed across the entrance as a cordon. In the background, rubble from the demolished building can be seen.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The city blocks encompassed by Manchester, Gloucester, Latimer Square and Hereford Streets are amongst those with the most demolished buildings in the city centre at the moment".

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A photograph showing Colombo Street, looking south towards Cathedral Square from the intersection with Cambridge Terrace. The partly demolished Mutual Funds Life building is visible above the trees.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The city blocks encompassed by Manchester Street, Gloucester Street, Latimer Square and Hereford Street are amongst those with the most demolished buildings in the city centre at the moment".

Photograph of Gap Filler project 15 (25)

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A volunteer from the Student Volunteer Army sweeping the site of a demolished building. This is where Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat" is to be built.

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A photograph of the site of a demolished building on Gloucester Street near Latimer Square. An excavator on the site is working to clear the rubble.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 11 (2)

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Volunteers setting up one of the painted pianos on the site of a demolished building. The piano has a Perspex and corrugated iron roof over it.

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Buildings in the process of being demolished in Kaiapoi. To the left is the Gospel Way Outreach Church, the front wall removed so that the inside of the building is exposed. Next door, the rubble from Bells Auctions is being cleared by a digger.

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A photograph of a shipping container suspended from a crane. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The container is being placed against the end of the building being demolished to protect the building beneath it from falling debris".

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view of Saint John the Baptist Anglican Church in Latimer Square. The church hall to the right of the church has been demolished. The empty site in the foreground is where the Arrow International building was before demolition".

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A photograph of a cleared building site between Hereford Street and Cashel Street. Part of the site has been fenced off. In the distance there is an excavator behind a partially-demolished brick building, and there is a crane across the road on Hereford Street.

Chandelier rescue

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Demolition of Robertson's Bakery building, Victoria Street, Christchurch. The Chandelier rescue ... Walking into work I saw the building I always wanted to buy (and run as a bookshop, perfumery, shoe shop) - the old Robertson's Bakery getting demolished. But the bigass digger gently reached into the wreckage and saved this chandelier, bringing...