A photograph of demolition equipment in front of the Crowne Plaza hotel.
A photograph of demolition equipment in front of the Crowne Plaza hotel.
A photograph of demolition equipment in front of the Crowne Plaza hotel.
A view of the Hotel Grand Chancellor through the Bridge of Remembrance.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Workers inside the Novotel Hotel".
Broken windows and damaged cladding on the iStay on Cashel hotel.
A man operating a crane in Cathedral Square, outside the Millennium Hotel.
A photograph of a sitting area on the ground floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. A plate and magazines has fallen off the coffee table and a chair has toppled over. In the background, a piece of the ceiling under the stairs is hanging loose.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking south across Bealey Avenue and between Colombo and Durham Streets towards the CBD".
An aerial photograph of Cathedral Square. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central city blocks bounded by Colombo Street, Hereford Street, Cashel Street and High Streets".
A photograph of the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the corner of Kilmore and Durham Streets. Some of the windows have broken, and the curtains are blowing in the breeze. Emergency tape has been draped over the handrails and the traffic lights.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The CBD with Fanzone and Christ's College in the foreground, Arts Centre to the right".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Worcester Street - damaged Warners Hotel end wall".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Rydges Hotel on Oxford Terrace".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The partially-demolished Hotel Grand Chancellor".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Copthorne on Durham, 335 Durham Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Copthorne Hotel on Colombo Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Copthorne Hotel on Colombo Street".
A photograph of the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza hotel, seen from Durham Street.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza hotel, seen from Durham Street.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza hotel, seen from Durham Street.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza hotel, seen from Durham Street.
A written history of 78 Worcester Street, the Clarendon Hotel and Clarendon Towers.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza hotel, seen from Durham Street.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza hotel, seen from Durham Street.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza hotel, seen from Durham Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a stairwell in the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the corner of Kilmore and Durham Streets. Large sections of the concrete wall behind the stair rail have broken away to reveal the steel reinforcement underneath.
Crack repairs on the Rendezvous Hotel in Gloucester Street. Cracks have been injected with epoxy resin using syringes. The epoxy resin leaves a peak around each hole which will be ground down to a smooth surface. The wall will then be repainted. This process actually makes the wall stronger than it was originally.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Colombo Street beginning at the Copthorne on the left and ending just past the Christchurch Cathedral".
A photograph of the site of a demolished building on Gloucester Street, near the intersection of Colombo Street. A Southern Demolition excavator is being used to clear the rubble away. In the background are the Forsyth Barr building, the Copthorne Hotel and the PricewaterhouseCoopers building.