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
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.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield. (L to R): Builder Kevin Deam and St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins inspect a damaged spire on the church tower".
Oxford Terrace Baptist Church on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Terrace, and alongside the Central City Fire Station on Kilmore St. The organ pipes have been saved and safely removed into safe keeping by the South Island Organ Company.
Building Record Form for the Repertory Theatre, 146-148 Kilmore St West, Christchurch
A photograph of the partially demolished St Elmo Courts building on Hereford Street.
Building Record Form for the former Gas Company Building, 94 Gloucester St, Christchurch
An infographic showing the status of houses in St Martins, Sydenham, and Opawa.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Canterbury Brewery, St Asaph Street".
Building Record Form for St John the Baptist Church, 234 Hereford Street, Chirstchurch
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Anglican Church of St Barnabas, Fendalton Road".
Cracked masonry on the buttresses of St John's Presbyterian Church on Winchester Street.
The partially-demolished McKenzie & Willis trading store at 257 St Asaph Street.
The partially-demolished McKenzie & Willis trading store at 257 St Asaph Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Site of St Lukes Church, Kilmore Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Anglican Church of St Barnabas, Fendalton Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Site of St Lukes Church, Kilmore Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Site of St Lukes Church, Kilmore Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Site of St Lukes Church, Kilmore Street".
St Luke's Anglican Church on the corner of Kilmore Street and Manchester Street.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Canterbury Brewery, St Asaph Street".
A photograph of a stained-glass window inside St John the Baptist Church.
A photograph of workers outside the earthquake-damaged St John the Baptist Church.
A photograph of the earthquake-damaged roof of St Paul's-Trinity-Pacific Church.
A photograph of a pile of bricks from St Paul's-Trinity-Pacific Church.
A photograph of nails in a column from St Paul's-Trinity-Pacific Church.