An aerial photograph of the earthquake damage to a window of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Buildings on Durham Street.
An aerial photograph of the earthquake damage to a window of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Buildings on Durham Street.
An aerial photograph of the earthquake damage to a window of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Buildings on Durham Street.
An aerial photograph of the earthquake damage to a window of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Buildings on Durham Street.
A photograph of a detail above a window of the Canterbury Times and Star Building.
An aerial photograph of the damage to the slate roof of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Buildings on Durham Street.
An aerial photograph of the earthquake damage to a window of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Buildings on Durham Street.
A photograph of a brick from the Union Centre Building. A frog mark can just be seen in it.
A photograph of the front window and sign of the Canterbury Times and Star Building.
An aerial photograph of the earthquake damage to a window of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Buildings on Durham Street.
A crane in front of the Victoria clock tower on the corner of Victoria and Montreal Streets.
A photograph of the Lyttelton Museum. A damaged section of roof and wall is protected by a large tarpaulin.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St Luke's Church, Kilmore Street - from the back showing damage to roof".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "134 Hereford Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "134 Hereford Street".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Barnabas Church, Fendalton Road".
The Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is a category 1 listed heritage building constructed largely of unreinforced stone masonry, and was significantly damaged in the recent Canterbury earthquakes. The building experienced ground shaking in excess of its capacity leading to block failures and partial collapse of parts of the building, which left the building standing but still posing a significant hazard. In this paper we discuss the approach to securing the building, and the interaction of the structural, heritage and safety demands involved in a dynamic seismic risk environment. We briefly cover the types of failures observed and the behaviour of the structure, and investigate the performance of both strengthened and un-strengthened parts of the building. Seismic strengthening options are investigated at a conceptual level. We draw conclusions as to how the building performed in the earthquakes, comment on the effectiveness of the strengthening and securing work and discuss the potential seismic strengthening methods.
The demolition site of the Methodist Church on the corner of Colombo and Brougham Street in Sydenham. A sign stuck into the rubble reads, "Property of the Sydenham Heritage Trust".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rubble behind the AMI Insurance Building, 29-35 Latimer Square".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The partially-demolished La Boheme building on Bedord Row".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The partially-demolished La Boheme building on Bedord Row".
We are taking a look at some of Christchurch's icon and heritage buildings lost, or at least badly damaged by last Tuesdays earthquake.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "213-215 Tuam Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New Regent Street (west side)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New Regent Street (west side)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Parking area behind Cashel Mall".
A crane and fences outside Cranmer Court on Kilmore Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Crichton Cobbers, Fitzgerald Avenue".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Crichton Cobbers, Fitzgerald Avenue".