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Engineers seek answers about CTV building
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A victim's family and engineers are seeking answers from the Christchurch City Council on why the earthquake-devastated CTV building was allowed to be built.
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Images, eqnz.chch.2010
The now vacated Christchurch City Council building suffered some damage in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
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Images, eqnz.chch.2010
The now vacated Christchurch City Council building suffered some damage in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
Supporters of Christchurch town hall hopeful it will be saved
Audio, Radio New Zealand
People who want the Christchurch Town Hall restored are optimistic the City Council will today commit to saving the earthquake damaged building.
Winter, Mark 1958- :[Christchurch one year on]. 22 February 2012
Images, Alexander Turnbull Library
The three versions of this cartoon show words reading 'rumble' and 'crack' and refer to problems in relationships between the Christchurch City Council and the government about how to manage the rebuilding of Christchurch after the second most damaging earthquake that occured one year ago today (22 February 2011) Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).
Council moves to fast track demolition of quake hit buildings
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Christchurch City Council has voted to fast track the demolition of two heritage buildings that it says were severely damaged in September's earthquake and pose an immediate danger to people's safety.
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Images, eqnz.chch.2010
The old Christchurch City Council building on Tuam Street was damaged in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
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Images, eqnz.chch.2010
The old Christchurch City Council building on Tuam Street was damaged in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
Fairfax Video, April 2012 (6)
Videos, UC QuakeStudies
A video about the Christchurch City Council housing complex on Conference Street in the Christchurch central city. The housing complex was unoccupied after the 22 February 2011 earthquake despite the housing shortage. Christchurch City Council said that the vacant units could not be lived in because of structural damage or damage to services. However, the building has been checked by structural engineers and many of the rooms have been deemed safe to occupy.
BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 1073
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The former Christchurch City Council office building at 163 Tuam Street".
Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A digitally manipulated image of the Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers building on Tuam Street. The photographer comments, "This building at 210 Tuam Street is still off limits after the Christchurch earthquake. It has Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers at the top and Christchurch City Council below. In the past it had a City Photography and at a different time a Parking Unit sign".
Christchurch Press 12 December 2012: Section A, Page 1
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
Page 1 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 12 December 2012.
Christchurch Press Infographic: 29 November 2012 (1)
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A map showing the location of properties being purchased by the Crown for the frame and bus interchange.
Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2652
Images, UC QuakeStudies
The Pink Pussy Cat Building formerly Lawrie & Wilson Auctioneers and used by the Parking Unit of Christchurch City Council.
Business owners decision on buildings' future
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Business owners have told the Christchurch City Council they are haemorrhaging thousands of dollars a week, while it decides whether or not to demolish their buildings following last month's earthquake.
Christchurch Press 13 December 2012: Section A, Page 5
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Thursday 13 December 2012.
Photograph by Paul Corliss 2566
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A photograph of documents taped to the door of 156 McCormacks Bay Road in Redcliffs. One of the documents is from the Christchurch City Council and reads, "Do not approach or enter this building".
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 456
Images, UC QuakeStudies
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "210 Tuam Street".
Christchurch Press 3 July 2013: Section A, Page 1
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
Page 1 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 3 July 2013.
Modern Art or Old Fashioned Disaster
Images, UC QuakeStudies
Boarded-up broken windows on the old Christchurch City Council building in Tuam Street. The photographer comments, "What can happen to a building when the land is no longer solid as a rock".
BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 220
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A crane with a wrecking ball demolishing St Elmo Courts on Hereford Street. Behind it is the Christchurch City Council Building.
Lianne Dalziel apologises for earthquake deaths
Audio, Radio New Zealand
About two hundred of those who lost loved ones in collapsed buildings in Christchurch's 2011 earthquake, heard an apology from the city's mayor, Lianne Dalziel yesterday. A royal commission in to faulty buildings found serious errors by engineers and the Christchurch City Council 185 people died during the earthquake on the 22nd of February, 2011. David Selway who lost his sister Susan Selway in the CTV Building, said it was good to hear a heartfelt apology from the mayor for the role her council played in signing off the building as safe.
Officials put barriers in way of strengthening building - owner
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A Christchurch businessman has told the Earthquake Royal Commission the city council was a nightmare to deal with when he was trying to strengthen his building before the September quake.
Not everybody in Chch excited about Council approvals
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Earthquake Recovery Minister says the Christchurch City Council has wasted an opportunity in deciding to save the Town Hall, instead of building a new performing arts precinct.
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0351
Images, UC QuakeStudies
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch central city with Gloucester Street running through the centre of the photograph, and Clarendon Towers in the middle.
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Images, UC QuakeStudies
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "175-179 Tuam Street".
Shock at new quake-prone building in Christchurch
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A woman badly injured in the Christchurch earthquake is astonished a new building in the city has been found to have serious seismic flaws. The empty new office building at 230 High Street has multiple problems in its earthquake design that the city council was warned about almost two years ago. Construction of the seven-storey building continued even after those warnings in December 2017. Susie Ferguson speaks to University of Canterbury lecturer Ann Brower, who was crushed after falling masonry fell on her bus during the February twenty-second 2011 earthquake.
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0287
Images, UC QuakeStudies
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch central city. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The central city, with the Majestic Theatre in the centre of the photograph. Lichfield Street runs from bottom left diagonally up the photograph to the top right. The City Council building is prominent in the bottom left corner and Latimer Square in the top left corner".
WEMO ERT Team Set 3 - April 2011 - Photograph 03
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A photograph of a Christchurch City Council red sticker. The sticker was used by the Civil Defence after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes to indicate that a building had been inspected and that serious structural damage had been found. The sticker states that there should be no entry to the building. It also states that 'entry may result in death or injury'.
Empowered Christchurch Letter to the MBIE Chief Executive
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
A copy of a letter from Seamus O'Cromtha which was sent to the Chief Executive of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) on 3 September 2016. The letter was sent on behalf of Empowered Christchurch. In the letter, O'Cromtha calls on the Chief Executive to instruct the Christchurch City Council to stop issuing building consents in areas such as the Avon River floodplain until stop banks have been erected along the river. O'Cromtha comments, "Properties that should be protected by stop banks currently have no protection against flooding".