A crane towers over a building on Cashel Street.
A crane beside a building on Cashel Street.
A crane beside a building on Cashel Street.
Demolition work on Litchfield Street, seen through the cordon fence.
Damage to Cashel Mall, seen through the arch of the Bridge of Remembrance.
The Bridge of Remembrance, which is unsafe and has been fenced off after the 22nd of February earthquake.
The Bridge of Remembrance, which is unsafe and has been fenced off after the 22nd of February earthquake.
Demolition work on Litchfield Street.
Demolition work on Litchfield Street.
Steel girders supporting the Colombo Street overbridge. Cracks in one of the concrete pillars run through a graffiti paste-up of a woman.
Damage to McKenzie & Willis Trading Store.
A large cleared site on Tuam Street left after several buildings were demolished.
Damage to the Aranui Community Hall on Breezes Road. Large sections of the double-brick walls have collapsed, and a cordon fence has been erected around the building.
Shops around the Merivale Mall area have been cordoned off. Dust cloud coming from a collapsed building can be seen in the background.
A damaged house, the outer brick wall of which has completely fallen away.
Detail of hay stacks and demolition rubble that have been left in an empty site on the corner of Armagh and Durham Street.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Water feature, 38 Belleview Terrace".
Damage to the Canterbury Provincial Chambers.
Silt from liquefaction outside the Merivale Mall. A pile of carpet pieces sit in front of the mall.
Silt from liquefaction outside the entrance to Merivale Mall.
A damaged house where the brick wall has crumbled into the yard, exposing the inside of the house.
The damaged Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, seen from the north side. Large cracks are visible below the dome.
A photograph of earthquake damage to the Crown Masonic Lodge on Wordsworth Street, also known as the Freemasons Centre. The entranceway is supported with wooden bracing, and part of the brick wall beside the entrance has collapsed.
A woman takes a photograph over the top of the cordon fence at the east end of Re:Start mall. The photographer comments, "The new temporary city mall has been open in Christchurch now for a week. Buildings damaged in the earthquake have been demolished and replaced with cargo containers to create a new, temporary, Cashel Mall. I visited the mall yesterday and was quite impressed with what they have done. The cargo containers have been nicely converted, brightly painted and smartly branded to create some good looking stores ... You'd think it would be strange to stand where my old office used to be and view these cargo-container-stores, but the reality was that it was so far removed from what used to be there that it was actually quite difficult to make the connection. It was only when straying to the attractive wooden boundary fences and peering over that you're suddenly taken back to the time running right up to, and shortly after, the earthquake".
Shops around the Merivale Mall area have been cordoned off. Dust cloud coming from a collapsed building can be seen in the background.
Flowers that have been woven into the fence around the damaged Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.
The former Linwood Public Library on Worcester Street has been fenced off.
A car on Rowses Road has its entire front half embedded in liquefaction after falling into a sink hole. The photographer comments, "Perhaps the most impressively stuck car was this small silver hatchback that went head first into a large hole in a street just off Shortland Street (between Shortland and Breezes Road) in Aranui. The rear hatch was open when we came across it. Apparently there had been one person and a dog inside but they managed to escape. The silt has now settled around and inside the car, making the vehicle an intimidating monument to the earthquake".
The entrance to the Christchurch Casino. On the fencing around the Casino is a sign that reads "Casino Opening 8pm Thursday May 26th".
A view of an empty site that is now covered with weeds and silt from liquefaction. On the site is a digger and two shipping containers. In the background, demolition work on the Manchester Securities House can be seen.