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BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0020

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The top story of Fuze Restaurant and Cafe is dismantled by construction workers. The building formerly housed the Harbour Board offices, and was built in 1880.

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0107

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Retour Restaurant in Edmonds Band Rotunda on Cambridge Terrace. This was added to the CERA demo list on 5 March 2012".

Helen King's Story

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Summary of oral history interview with Helen King about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.

Deb Robertson's Blog 03/08/2012: Scrap Basket Quilt Number Six

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An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 3 August 2012 entitled, "Scrap Basket Quilt Number Six".

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 636

Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A digger working on the remains of Gough House with the fragile remains of the wooden heritage building, Shands Emporium (one of Christchurch's oldest retail buildings), still standing on Hereford Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 637

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The digger is working on the remains of Gough House, with the fragile remains of the wooden heritage building Shands Emporium (one of Christchurch's oldest retail buildings) still standing on Hereford Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos October 2010 photograph 071

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St Elmo Courts, a NZHPT heritage building on the corner of Hereford and Montreal Streets. The building was severely damaged during the 4 September earthquake, with diagonal cracking between the windows. Scaffolding has been placed around the bottom of the building.

Performance-based seismic assessment of an historic high-rise masonry buil…

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

The Manchester Courts building was a heritage building located in central Christchurch (New Zealand) that was damaged in the Mw 7.1 Darfield earthquake on 4 September 2010 and subsequently demolished as a risk reduction exercise. Because the building was heritage listed, the decision to demolish the building resulted in strong objections from heritage supporters who were of the opinion that the building had sufficient residual strength to survive possible aftershock earthquakes. On 22 February 2011 Christchurch was struck by a severe aftershock, leading to the question of whether building demolition had proven to be the correct risk reduction strategy. Finite element analysis was used to undertake a performance-based assessment, validating the accuracy of the model using the damage observed in the building before its collapse. In addition, soil-structure interaction was introduced into the research due to the comparatively low shear wave velocity of the soil. The demolition of a landmark heritage building was a tragedy that Christchurch will never recover from, but the decision was made considering safety, societal, economic and psychological aspects in order to protect the city and its citizens. The analytical results suggest that the Manchester Courts building would have collapsed during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and that the collapse of the building would have resulted in significant fatalities.

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 097

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Former Trinity Congregational Church to be retained and rebuilt".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2105

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A pile of bricks which have crumbled from a wall and landed on a digger at a demolition on Lichfield Street. This is a result of the 23 December 2011 earthquake".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2108

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Poplar Lane, looking rather the worse for the wear. It's not clear whether this is from demolition activity or earthquake damage".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2013 photograph 179

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An aerial photograph of the historic BNZ building on Williams Street in Kaiapoi.

Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book Page 044

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A scan of page 44 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.

Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book Page 089

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A scan of page 89 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.

Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book Page 222

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A scan of page 224 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.

Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book Page 237

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A scan of page 240 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.

Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book Page 136

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A scan of page 138 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2130

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The La Boheme building on Bedford Row which was further damage during the 23 December 2011 earthquakes".

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2091

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "MSC House at 92 Lichfield Street which has sustained further damage during the 23 December 2011 aftershock".