A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 4 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 5 March 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 7 February 2013.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 23 August 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 25 May 2015.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 1 June 2014.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "CBD with PricewaterhouseCoopers building in the foreground".
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 28 March 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 4 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 4 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 28 March 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken in Victoria Square on 4 January 2014.
A video of a tour through the Christchurch central city Red Zone. The video includes footage of Victoria Square, the Town Hall, Oxford Terrace, Armagh Street, New Regent Street, Gloucester Street, Colombo Street, and Cathedral Square. It also includes footage of excavators demolishing the ChristChurch Cathedral.
A video of a tour through the Christchurch central city Red Zone. The video includes footage of the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Victoria Square, the Forsyth Barr building, Colombo Street, Gloucester Street, Cathedral Square, the BNZ building, Cashel Mall, and the Kathmandu store on High Street.
An aerial photograph of Cathedral Square.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch central city with the Farmers car park in the centre and Victoria Square in the background.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch central city with Victoria Square in the centre and the Crowne Plaza in the distance.
A photograph of the Copthorne Hotel and Winnie Bagoes on Colombo Street taken from Victoria Square. In the background, the PricewaterhouseCoopers building can be seen.
The Crowne Plaza Hotel viewed from Victoria Square across the tram bridge. Wire fencing has been placed across the bridge to keep people off.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Victoria Square Branch of National Bank, 779 Colombo Street".
A photograph of looking west out a window of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Building on Armagh Street. To the left is the Victoria Apartments with a slight forward lean. Victoria Square is in the centre of the photograph and to the right is the Crowne Plaza Hotel. In the foreground is the Copthorne Hotel.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The view across Victoria Square to the Forsyth Barr building with the statue of Captain James Cook in the foreground".
The Edmonds Band Rotunda on Cambridge Terrace, with wire fencing around the building. Weeds have grown in the garden and along the balustrade.
Bird droppings on the windows of the Town Hall, and weeds growing in the fountain bed below.
Colombo Street looking south from Kilmore Street. Concrete and wire fencing have been placed over the street as a cordon. In the distance, the bracing in front of the Cathedral can be seen.
This topic was chosen in response to the devastation caused to Cathedral Square, Christchurch, New Zealand following earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. Working amongst the demolition bought to attention questions about how to re-conceive the square within the rebuilt city. In particular, it raised questions as to how a central square could be better integrated and experienced as a contemporary addition to Christchurch city. This thesis seeks to investigate the ways in which central squares can be better integrated with the contemporary city and how New Urbanist design principles can contribute toward this union. The research principally focuses on the physical and spatial integration of the square with the contemporary city. A drawing-based analysis of select precedent case studies helped to determine early on that overall integration of the contemporary square could be attributed to several interdependent criteria. The detailed studies are supplemented further with literature-based research that narrowed the criteria to five integrative properties. These are: identity, scale and proportion, use, connectivity and natural landscape. These were synthesised, in part, from the integrative New Urbanist movement and the emerging integrative side of the more contemporary Post Urbanist movement. The literature-based research revealed that a more inclusive approach toward New Urbanist and Post Urbanist design methodologies may also produce a more integrated and contemporary square. Three design case studies, using the redesign of Cathedral Square, were undertaken to test this hypothesis. The case studies found that overall, integration was reliant on a harmonious balance between the five integrative properties, concluding that squares can be better integrated with the contemporary city. Further testing of the third concept, which embraced an allied New Urbanist / Post Urbanist approach to design, found that New Urbanism was limited in its contribution toward the integration of the square.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Victoria Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking across Victoria Square in the early evening to the snow covered heap of rubble that is the remnants of the Crowne Plaza".
The gutted and partially demolished Crowne Plaza Hotel viewed from Victoria Park.
The gutted and partially demolished Crowne Plaza Hotel viewed from Victoria Street.