A photograph of a cleared building site on High Street.
A crushed car in a cleared site on Tuam Street.
2nd building in has been demolished and site cleared
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "On the footpath in Worcester Street near Radio Network House. Pacific Tower (Marque Hotel) is at centre rear".
Te Papa has been cleared to reopen after structural assessments following Monday's earthquake centred in North Canterbury.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cleared site on Avonside Drive".
Spray-painted message on a fence reading "Stay clear wall unsafe".
Damaged brick fence with the words 'Danger keep clear' on it.
Liquefaction silt being cleared from Hilton Street, near the Kaiapoi Fire Station.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Sarah Davidson clears liquefaction from Hoon Hay Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Sarah Davidson clears liquefaction from Hoon Hay Road".
A photograph of the cleared site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "180 Tuam Street, almost cleared away".
A photograph of demolition equipment on a cleared site on Hereford Street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Sarah Davidson clears liquefaction from Hoon Hay Road".
Damaged stores on Colombo Street with a cleared building site in front.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall/Plymouth Lane".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Containers for the new shopping complex in Cashel Mall".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Tuam Street looking north-east towards corner Madras and Cashel Streets. IRD building is the large building on the left".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The cleared site of 198 Hereford Street".
Residents using shovels to clear liquefaction from a property in north-east Christchurch.
A sign for the Cranmer Centre remains as a digger clears the site.
A photograph of two people standing in a cleared site in Cashel Mall.
A photograph of excavators on cleared sites between Cashel Street and Hereford Street.
A photograph of excavators on cleared sites between Cashel Street and Hereford Street.
Diggers work to clear the rubble from a demolished building on Victoria Street.
The Heritage and Millenium Hotels viewed from a cleared site on Worcester Street.
The Heritage and Millenium Hotels viewed from a cleared site on Worcester Street.
A large cleared site on Tuam Street left after several buildings were demolished.
This thesis was completed by Abigail Thompson for her Master of Architecture (Professional) at the University of Auckland in 2012. It was initiated with the aim of the addressing the destruction of many Christchurch buildings following the earthquakes, and investigates the role of architecture in public memory and ways of reconnecting people with the city. Note that some images in the thesis have been obscured in order to avoid copyright infringement.