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.
A graph showing changes in residential building work.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Blacketts building closed, unsafe".
A map showing the locations of building demolitions.
A graphic describing the status of heritage buildings.
Rescue workers search the still-burning CTV building.
A map showing the location of heritage buildings.
A photograph of a sign from the TVNZ Building on the building's demolition site. Also visible are a fire extinguisher, hose and other rubble from the building.
A photograph of cracks in the former Post Office building in Lyttelton.
A photograph of rubble from the demolished building at 9 Norwich Quay.
A photograph of a partially-demolished building at 386-400 Colombo Street.
A photograph of building rubble on the footpath outside the Cranmer Courts.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Fuller Brothers Building on Tuam Street.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Fuller Brothers Building on Tuam Street.
A member of the New Zealand Fire Service in a cherry picker spraying water at the fire burning in the collapsed Canterbury Television Building. Smoke is billowing out of the intact section of the building. Below, emergency personnel are searching the rubble for trapped people. A piece of corrugated plastic is being used to slide pieces of debris off the site.
A digger demolishing the former Ozone Hotel in New Brighton. The photographer comments, "The bulldozers are starting circling the Ozone in New Brighton, Christchurch. Taking bits of flesh from the mortally wounded building".
The Pier cafe and the New Brighton Public Library building at the start of the New Brighton Pier.
The Pier cafe and the New Brighton Public Library building at the start of the New Brighton Pier.
A video about the demolition of buildings on Victoria Street. The video includes footage of an excavator demolishing the Daily Bagel building, and an interview with Paddy Snowden from City Salvage about his work after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. It also includes an interview with Api Agsorn-Worn, owner of Victoria Thai Foods on Victoria Street, about the status of her building which she acquired six months ago.
Page 1 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Monday 31 March 2014.
Members of the New Zealand and Japanese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams working on the site of the CTV Building.
A member of the New Zealand Search and Rescue Team (USAR) guiding a digger on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the New Zealand and Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams working on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the New Zealand and Japanese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams working on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the Police and Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams digging through rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
Three members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team taking a break at the site of the CTV Building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New building at 511 Papanui Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "160 Gloucester Street. New Press Building".
Work starts on the new student entertainment building in the USCA carpark.
Work starts on the new student entertainment building in the USCA carpark.