Bracing and shelters built over the Provincial Chambers to prevent further damage.
A truck for carrying demolition rubble parked on Colombo Street, with the Forsyth Barr building visible in the background. Decorations from Christmas 2010 are still hanging from lamp posts.
Fire engines belonging to Ward Demolition parked beside the former site of the Convention Centre.
A sign on the cordon fence near Victoria Square gives the opening hours for public access to the recently re-opened square. In the background, the Cathedral is visible, seen through the gap where a building has been demolished.
Apart from the cordon fences just visible in the background, this view of the recently-reopened Victoria Square seems unchanged by the earthquakes.
The statue of Queen Victoria overlooks a pile of demolition rubble on Colombo Street.
The wall of the Gap Filler HQ hut beside the Pallet Pavilion is decorated with recycled materials.
Dead potplants abandoned on the balconies of a building in Victoria Square.
Barbara Garrie and Laura Dunham serve tea at the pop-up tearoom at the opening of the Pallet Pavilion.
Some of the pallets making up the Gap Filler Pallet Pavilion have been angled to make spaces for planters.
Signs at the entrance to the Gap Filler Pallet Pavilion read "No heels. No smoking. No climbing. Uneven surface please take care".
Barbara Garrie, Laura Dunham and Jan Saville running the pop-up tearoom at the opening of the Pallet Pavilion.
Barbara Garrie cuts cake while Jan Saville makes tea in the pop-up tearoom at the opening of the Pallet Pavilion.
Jan Saville serves tea in the pop-up tearoom at the opening of the Pallet Pavilion.
Pizza oven made out of recycled materials at the Gap Filler Pallet Pavilion. A sign on the oven reads "I'm still dryin'. I should be done by Jan 15".
The Gap Filler HQ hut next to the Pallet Pavilion, on the former site of the Crowne Plaza hotel.
Weeds growing between the paving stones in Chancery Lane, seen through the cordon fencing.
Looking through the gutted building on Gloucester Street which formerly housed the On the Spot dairy, with the Police kiosk in Cathedral Square visible in the background.
Rubble from the demolition of the Farmers car park.
Rubble from the demolition of the Farmers car park, with the public library in the background.
Rubble from the demolition of the Farmers car park.
The damaged Provincial Chambers, seen through the cordon fence.
Temporary covering protecting the Provincial Chambers from further damage.
Protective coverings on the damaged Provincial Chambers.
The Kate Shepard memorial and Our City O-Tautahi seen through the cordon fencing.
Damage to the north side of the Cathedral. A walkway from Gloucester Street to the Square was opened up for a few days to allow the public a closer look at the Cathedral.
The soon-to-be demolished ANZ building in Cathedral Square. A walkway from Gloucester Street to the Square was opened up for a few days to allow the public a closer look at the Cathedral.
Weeds growing around the war memorial in Cathedral Square. A walkway from Gloucester Street to the Square was opened up for a few days to allow the public a closer look at the Cathedral.
A road cone warns of exposed reinforcing from a demolished building on the walkway from Gloucester Street to the Square which was opened up for a few days to allow the public a closer look at the Cathedral.
An empty space where a building once stood on Gloucester Street.