Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bonnington House, aka Red Cross building, at 227 High Street".
Damage to the Kenton Chambers building. Part of the brick wall has collapsed, exposing the interior.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "132-138 Lichfield Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "128-130 Lichfield Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "128-130 Lichfield Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "92-94 Lichfield Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "144-148 Lichfield Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "171-175 High Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "120-112 Hereford Street".
An interior view of the Cranmer Court building's octagonal corner section, which housed Plato Creative from March 2008 to November 2009. The photograph showcases the building's high windows and intricate wooden ceiling. Although designed as a book depot, this room was used as the principal's office while Christchurch Normal School was operating from the building. A table with chairs set around it can be seen in the lower part of the photograph.
A PDF copy of page 132 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The page documents the transitional project 'Hunters & Collectors Building'. Note that images have been removed from the page for copyright reasons.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Provincial Council Chambers, Durham Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Provincial Council Chambers, Durham Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Provincial Council Chambers, Durham Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Odeon Theatre, 214 Tuam Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Highlight House, 173-175 Cashel Street".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Joseph The Worker Catholic Church, Lyttelton".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Edmond's Clocktower, Oxford Terrace and Madras Street".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Edmond's Clocktower, Oxford Terrace and Madras Street".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Joseph The Worker Catholic Church, Lyttelton".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Christchurch Club, Worcester Street".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Joseph The Worker Catholic Church, Lyttelton".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Joseph The Worker Catholic Church, Lyttelton".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Knox Church, viewed from Victoria Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christ Church Cathedral".
A view of the Worcester Street bridge from across the Avon River. In the background, the Our City O-Tautahi building is surrounded by scaffolding and bracing, the Rydges building behind.
The badly damaged Cranmer Courts Building on the corner of Montreal and Kilmore Streets . The front window and archway has crumbled, rubble and debris littering the footpath below.
A photograph of the exposed side of the McKenzie & Willis building.
A photograph of the exposed side of the McKenzie & Willis building.
The Manchester Courts building was a heritage building located in central Christchurch (New Zealand) that was damaged in the Mw 7.1 Darfield earthquake on 4 September 2010 and subsequently demolished as a risk reduction exercise. Because the building was heritage listed, the decision to demolish the building resulted in strong objections from heritage supporters who were of the opinion that the building had sufficient residual strength to survive possible aftershock earthquakes. On 22 February 2011 Christchurch was struck by a severe aftershock, leading to the question of whether building demolition had proven to be the correct risk reduction strategy. Finite element analysis was used to undertake a performance-based assessment, validating the accuracy of the model using the damage observed in the building before its collapse. In addition, soil-structure interaction was introduced into the research due to the comparatively low shear wave velocity of the soil. The demolition of a landmark heritage building was a tragedy that Christchurch will never recover from, but the decision was made considering safety, societal, economic and psychological aspects in order to protect the city and its citizens. The analytical results suggest that the Manchester Courts building would have collapsed during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and that the collapse of the building would have resulted in significant fatalities.