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BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 050

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Press building on Worcester Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2013 photograph 123

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An aerial photograph of Christ Church Cathedral with the demolished site of the Press Building and Warner's Hotel behind.

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 140

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Gloucester and Colombo Streets, looking east".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 012

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new Christchurch Press building on Gloucester Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 011

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new Christchurch Press building on Gloucester Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 013

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new Christchurch Press building on Gloucester Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 049

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking down Worcester Street towards the cathedral and the Press building".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0194

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view down Gloucester Street with the new Press building on the left".

sand volcano

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And, yes, the newspaper always gets through! The Press newspapers were delivered in our area of Hoon Hay in the hours after the earthquake.

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 777

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rubble in front of the Press Building in Cathedral Square".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 775

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rubble in front of the Press Building in Cathedral Square".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 776

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rubble in front of the Press Building in Cathedral Square".

WEMO ERT Set 1 - February 2011 - Photograph 62

A photograph looking east down Gloucester Street from near the Manchester Street intersection. Members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team and construction workers are walking down the street. To their right is the new Press House building with many broken windows. In the foreground, the Coachman building has sustained earthquake damage to the façade. Wire fences have been placed around the building as a cordon.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - February 2011 - Photograph 63

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A photograph of a Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team member talking to a member of the Professional Building Services on Gloucester Street. In the background is the Press House building with many cracks in the façade. Bits of bricks and other debris are scattered across the footpath. Some of the windows above the facade have broken. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the bottom-storey windows.

The consumption of chaos: From the charm of chaos to the tedium of order …

Research Papers, Lincoln University

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?

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0330

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An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street looking west towards Latimer Square. The new Press Building and the Marque/Pacific Towers buildings are at the centre of the photo with the Cathedral in the lower right".

CityUps Site Map

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A PDF copy of the site map for CityUps. CityUps was a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014. It was held on vacant sites at the intersection of Lichfield Street, Manchester Street and High Street. Architecture students from Unitec, The University of Auckland and CPIT collaborated with local businesses to create large-scale, temporary structures to entertain the public.

Men up High

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On a walk around the neighbourhood, December 3, 2013, Christchurch New Zealand. www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/avenues/featu...