A presentation given to St Martin's primary school students about SCIRT work in Opawa and Hillsborough.
An archaeological report compiled for New Zealand Historic Places Trust under the Historical Places Act 1993
A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble from the demolished building at 270 St Asaph Street.
A photograph of 270 St Asaph Street. A red sticker on the door indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
Queenstown and Christchurch are twin poles of New Zealand's landscape of risk. As the country's 'adventure capital', Queenstown is a spectacular landscape in which risk is a commodity. Christchurch's landscape is also risky, ruptured by earthquakes, tentatively rebuilding. As a far-flung group of tiny islands in a vast ocean, New Zealand is the poster-child of the sublime. Queenstown and Christchurch tell two different, yet complementary, stories about the sublime. Christchurch and Queenstown are vehicles for exploring the 21st-century sublime, for reflecting on its expansive influence on shaping cultural landscapes. Christchurch and Queenstown stretch and challenge the sublime's influence on the designed landscape. Circling the paradoxes of risk and safety, suffering and pleasure, the sublime feeds an infinite appetite for fear as entertainment, and at the same time calls for an empathetic caring for a broken landscape and its residents.
Old churches and earthquakes do not mix well.
Okains Bay Banks Peninsula New Zealand
The base of the tower on the right of this picture has sunk about 25cm so that the lower course of bricks have disappeared below ground level. Meanwhile the other end of the building has sunk about 50cm splitting the building into thirds. The sand you can see is what came bubbling up out of the ground due to liquifaction. Unfortunately the build...
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Spire removed for safety
A photograph of the cracks between the windows of St Elmo Courts on the corner of Hereford and Montreal Streets.
Damage to the church hall of St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square. The roof has been weather proofed with plywood and there are cracks in the buildings masonry. The remains of fallen bricks can be seen on the footpath. A safety fence has been erected around the building.
Damage to the church hall of St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square. The roof has been weather proofed with plywood and there are cracks in the buildings masonry. The remains of fallen bricks can be seen on the footpath. A safety fence has been erected around the building.
St John the Baptist Church on Latimer Square. The masonry of the bell tower has crumbled onto the lawn, exposing the inside. Damage to the roof and the tip of the gable can also be seen.
Bracing made of steel beams and concrete blocks that has been applied to the wall of St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square.
Damage to the bell tower of St John's Church on Hereford Street. The stones have crumbled, exposing the inside of the tower. They are still lying where they fell. Damage can also be seen on the roof.
The back of St John the Baptist Church on Hereford Street near Latimer Square. The tower has crumbled revealing the inner structure. The fallen bricks have been stacked on pallets, some still lying in the grass.
A 'Road Closed' sign on St Johns Street in Woolston, where underground repairs are being undertaken.
A car negotiating its way through liquefaction silt on St Johns Street in Woolston.
The east wall of St Luke's Church on Manchester Street. The top of the wall has broken away and is now covered with plastic to prevent weather damage inside the building.
A photograph of the back of badly-damaged High Street buildings, taken from St Asaph Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The south-east corner of Manchester and St Asaph Streets".
Structural damage to St Elmo Courts with diagonal cracks between the windows of the building. These cracks show that there has been rocking of the masonry piers which means there is no vertical reinforcement provided in the walls.
St John's Anglican Church in Hororata. The top of the bell tower has collapsed into the roof of the church, some falling onto the ground below where it still lies.
The bell tower of St John's Anglican Church in Hororata. The top of the tower has collapsed, and many of the bricks have crumbled along the side into the roof of the church. A skip has been lifted up by a crane next to the tower with a man inside.
St John's Anglican Church in Hororata. The top of the bell tower has collapsed into the roof of the church, some falling onto the ground below where it still lies.
A photograph of a badly-damaged building on St Asaph Street. The front facade has been removed and the building is surrounded by scaffolding.
A photograph of the back of badly-damaged High Street buildings, taken from St Asaph Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Site of St John's Church in Madras Street".
A photograph of the back of badly-damaged High Street buildings, taken from St Asaph Street.