A photograph of a child's painting attached to a cordon fence. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Manchester and Tuam Streets, botanical preservation site".
A photograph of a child's painting attached to a cordon fence. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Manchester and Tuam Streets, botanical preservation site".
A photograph of a military armoured vehicle parked on the site of a demolished building. The vehicle has been used to support advertising signs for a relocated business.
Two badly damaged cars in an empty site on the corner of Tuam and Barbadoes Streets. In the background are the Hotel Grand Chancellor, the Holiday Inn City Centre, and the Westpac building.
Heathcote Valley school strong motion station (HVSC) consistently recorded ground motions with higher intensities than nearby stations during the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. For example, as shown in Figure 1, for the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, peak ground acceleration at HVSC reached 1.4 g (horizontal) and 2 g (vertical), the largest ever recorded in New Zealand. Strong amplification of ground motions is expected at Heathcote Valley due to: 1) the high impedance contrast at the soil-rock interface, and 2) the interference of incident and surface waves within the valley. However, both conventional empirical ground motion prediction equations (GMPE) and the physics-based large scale ground motions simulations (with empirical site response) are ineffective in predicting such amplification due to their respective inherent limitations.
Members of the New Zealand and Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams watching a digger clear rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
A panorama of Gap Filler Bowling, a 1950s bowling alley designed and built by CPIT students on the site of the JetSet Lounge.
A panorama of Gap Filler Bowling, a 1950s bowling alley designed and built by CPIT students on the site of the JetSet Lounge.
Students from the University of Canterbury preparing a demolished building site in Sydenham. This is where Gap Filler's Community Chess Board is to be built.
Students from the University of Canterbury preparing a demolished building site in Sydenham. This is where Gap Filler's Community Chess Board is to be built.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street - this big machine munches concrete rubble and reduces it to aggregate for hard fill on building sites".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Madras and Lichfield Streets, looking west".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The IRD building on Cashel Street seen from across the demolition site of the Occidental Hotel on Hereford Street".
A photograph of a truck on the site of the partially-demolished Art Gallery Apartments Building on Gloucester Street. In the background, an excavator is continuing to demolish the building.
A photograph of 141 Cambridge Terrace taken from a vacant site on Gloucester Street. The building is under deconstruction and the windows have been removed so that the inside is visible.
A photograph of a sign from the TVNZ Building on the building's demolition site. Also visible are a fire extinguisher, hose and other rubble from the building.
A photograph of flowers and other items placed outside the site of the CTV Building on Madras Street in memorial of those who lost their lives in the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Madras and Lichfield Streets, looking north".
Volunteers placing planks of wood on the ground for Gap Filler's painted piano to sit on. This is the site of the now demolished Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Lyttelton Sea Foods shop has re-opened in a portacom on the cleared site in Norwich Quay, Lyttelton after their shop was demolished".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The cleared site of Ground, corner on London and Canterbury Streets, Lyttelton. A rest area and garden sales have developed here".
A photograph of Elizabeth Ackermann standing in front of a partially-demolished building on Cashel Street. In the background, two excavators are working to remove the rubble from the site.
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".
A wreath of flowers from the Honorary Minoru Kiuchi, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in Japan, laid at the CTV building site on the memorial of the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gap Filler project, a garden in the site of a demolished building on the corner of Oxford and Colombo Street, 822 Colombo Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Some of the former buildings at Avonside Girls High School remain, as do the magnificent trees which make this site so attractive".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Madras and Lichfield Streets, looking north east".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Madras and Lichfield Streets, looking east".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Madras and Lichfield Streets, looking south".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Madras and Lichfield Streets, looking south east".