One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 9 March 2011 showing earthquake damage to the Lyttelton Coffee Company Building on London Street. The photograph shows a fenced off section of the south side of London Street. Also visible in the photograph are the Lyttelton Four Square, and the gateway leading to the Wunderbar. Due to prior eart...
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 12 April 2011 showing earthquake damage to the former Convent of Our Lady of Mercy. St Mary's School, run by the Sisters of Mercy, was also housed in this building. At the time of the 4 September 2010 earthquake the building was a private residence. The sense of loss felt when confronted with the...
One portrait colour digital photograph taken on 19 April 2011 showing earthquake damage to the Catholic Church of St Joseph the Worker in Winchester Street Lyttelton. Photograph shows the southern end of church. The fencing erected around the Catholic Church of St Joseph the Worker shows the emphasis which was placed on public safety in the mon...
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 12 March 2011 showing earthquake damage to the Lyttelton Cenotaph on Simeon Quay. The unstable top of the memorial has been deconstructed and is visible on the surrounding grass, a plastic tarpaulin has been used to cover the top of the newly exposed stonework and a temporary fence has been erecte...
One portrait colour digital photograph taken on 25 September 2011 showing the demolition of the Catholic Church of St Joseph the Worker in Winchester Street Lyttelton. Photograph shows the Transepts, Sanctuary. The damage from the June 2011 aftershocks led to the demolition of the St Joseph Church 146 years after its opening in June 1865. The L...
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 15 June 2011 showing earthquake damage to the retaining wall on the northeast corner of Oxford and Exeter Streets. The wall was constructed from unreinforced blocks of local red volcanic rock held together with mortar. Retaining walls in Lyttelton were built of unreinforced soft volcanic stone in...
At 4.35 a.m. on the 4th of September 2010 Christchurch residents were shaken awake by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, the largest earthquake to hit urban New Zealand for nearly 80 years. It was a large earthquake. On average the world only has 17 earthquakes a year larger than magnitude seven. Haiti’s earthquake in January 2010 was magnitude 7.1 and Chile’s earthquake in February was magnitude 8.8. Although it was a big quake, Christchurch was lucky. In Haiti’s earthquake over 230,000 people were killed and in Chile 40,000 homes were destroyed. Happily this was not the situation in Christchurch, however the earthquake has caused considerable damage. The challenge for the Landscape Architecture community is to contribute to the city’s reconstruction in ways that will not only fix the problems of housing, and the city’s urban, suburban and neighbourhood fabric but that will do so in ways that will help solve the landscape problems that dogged the city before the earthquake struck.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Liquefaction following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Liquefaction following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Liquefaction following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Briefing following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Liquefaction following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Liquefaction following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Liquefaction following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Canterbury Earthquake aftermath 2010".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of Canterbury Earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage following Canterbury's earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Liquefaction following Canterbury's earthquake".
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