Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rear of 147 Armagh Street".
A copy of the plan, created in 2011, detailing how the rebuild of the three waters and road infrastructure was to be coordinated with other utility operators.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "113 Tuam Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The MFL building on the corner of Gloucester and Colombo Streets which is being prepared for demoliton".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking south east from the intersection of Manchester Street and Hereford Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Intersection of Peterborough and Durham Streets looking north".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Buildings from 62-78 Gloucester Street viewed from Cambridge Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Badly damaged buildings behind Colombo and Armagh Streets".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Copthorne Hotel, 776 Colombo Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "328 Durham Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Victoria Square Branch of National Bank, 779 Colombo Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition site of 293 Manchester Street taken from Oxford Terrace".
Prior to the devastating 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, parts of the CBD of Christchurch, New Zealand were undergoing revitalisation incorporating aspects of adaptive reuse and gentrification. Such areas were often characterised by a variety of bars, restaurants, and retail outlets of an “alternative” or “bohemian” style. These early 20th century buildings also exhibited relatively low rents and a somewhat chaotic and loosely planned property development approach by small scale developers. Almost all of these buildings were demolished following the earthquakes and a cordon placed around the CBD for several years. A paper presented at the ERES conference in 2013 presented preliminary results, from observation of post-earthquake public meetings and interviews with displaced CBD retailers. This paper highlighted a strongly held fear that the rebuild of the central city, then about to begin, would result in a very different style and cost structure from that which previously existed. As a result, permanent exclusion from the CBD of the types of businesses that previously characterised the successfully revitalised areas would occur. Five years further on, new CBD retail and office buildings have been constructed, but large areas of land between them remain vacant and the new buildings completed are often having difficulty attracting tenants. This paper reports on the further development of this long-term Christchurch case study and examines if the earlier predictions of the displaced retailers are coming true, in that a new CBD that largely mimics a suburban mall in style and tenancy mix, inherently loses some of its competitive advantage?
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "CBD. Looking north between Manchester and Madras Streets, showing Latimer Square".
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A photograph of members of the public walking along Manchester Street as part of the Sunday CBD walk.
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Historic Post Office in Cathedral Square from the site of the Regent Theatre (telephoto lens used)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Torrens House, Hereford Street".
Artist Peter Majendie's decorated tree on the corner of Manchester Street and Cambridge Terrace. The tree has been covered with a large frost cloth and hi-vis material for the launch of an earthquake fund by the Canterbury Community Trust.
A view from Cambridge Terrace of the damaged Our City O-Tautahi building, formerly the Municipal Chambers. Scaffolding and steel bracing has been placed along the front of the building.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition of the BNZ building in Armagh Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peaches and Cream, 130 Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "195 - 199 Armagh Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "195 Armagh Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "195 Armagh Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Struthers Lane".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "141-149 Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking down Struthers Lane towards Sol Square".