A photograph of the TSB Bank Building on the corner of Colombo and Hereford Streets.
A photograph of the TSB Bank Building on the corner of Colombo and Hereford Streets.
Page 5 of Section C of the Christchurch Press, published on Saturday 10 September 2011.
A photograph of the new Press Building on Gloucester Street under construction. To the right, the former Theatre Royal can be seen with wooden beams placed under the awning for support.
Winnie Bagoes on Gloucester Street. The side of the building has collapsed. Bricks and rubble lie in a pile on Gloucester Street where they fell.
Members of the New Zealand and Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams watching a digger clear rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
The Royal Commission into the Canterbury Earthquakes continues today with the focus on the Pyne Gould Corporation building, where 18 people were killed.
A video of a tour through the Christchurch central city Red Zone. The video includes footage of Armagh Street, Madras Street, Latimer Square, St John's Anglican Church, Hereford Street, the Octagon Live restaurant, the Design and Arts building, the High Street mall, and the Grand Chancellor Hotel. It also includes footage of construction workers cutting up metal beams, and clearing rubble from a building on Manchester Street.
A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble from demolished buildings at 385-395 Worcester Street.
A photograph of earthquake damage to 154 Manchester Street. Rubble from the building covers the footpath.
A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble from demolished buildings at 385-395 Worcester Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to 191 Armagh Street, exposing the inside of the building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to 191 Armagh Street, exposing the inside of the building.
A photograph of a digger clearing the remains of a demolished building at 468 Colombo Street.
A photograph of a digger clearing the remains of a demolished building at 468 Colombo Street.
A photograph of a digger clearing the remains of a demolished building at 468 Colombo Street.
A photograph of a pile of bricks from the earthquake-damaged building at 158 Gloucester Street.
A photograph of a pile of bricks from the earthquake-damaged building at 158 Gloucester Street.
A photograph of a pile of bricks from the earthquake-damaged building at 158 Gloucester Street.
A photograph of a piece of masonry removed from the Fuller Brothers Building on Tuam Street.
Chaplain Tom Innes performing a blessing for the new buildings in the Kirkwood Village.
Chaplain Tom Innes performing a blessing for the new buildings in the Kirkwood Village.
A photograph of chalked messages on the side of a building in New Brighton.
Chaplain Tom Innes performing a blessing for the new buildings in the Kirkwood Village.
Chaplain Tom Innes performing a blessing for the new buildings in the Kirkwood Village.
Members of the New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team using a circular saw to cut through steel at the site of the CTV Building.
A member of the New Zealand Defence Force on the site of the CTV Building. In the background diggers are being used to clear the rubble.
The brick facade has fallen from the former Princess Cinema in New Brighton, exposing the rooms inside, and crushing a car parked below. The photographer comments, "The front of the old Princess Cinema in New Brighton after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 February. Under the pile of bricks is a luckily unoccupied blue car. The word CLEAR on the broken facade is to show that there is no one in the car. This building has now been knocked down as it was so dangerous".
A property manager has been questioned at the Royal Commission investigating the Canterbury earthquakes about why he didn't tell tenants the building they worked in was unsafe.
An American engineer has told the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission he was shocked at the failure of builders to properly fix the floors of the PGC building to its walls.