Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Community House, 141 Hereford Street. Note the pile of gravel ready to be spread prior to demolishing the building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Packing up parts of the Cathedral for storage. Remains of Warners Hotel in the background".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Design and Arts College of NZ, Kaplan House, 116 Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Intersection of Gloucester and Manchester Streets (south-west view)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Intersection of Gloucester and Manchester Streets (west view)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking east along Worcester Street past the demolition site of the Press Building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor car park demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street with the Heritage Hotel on Worcester Street at the rear left".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking north east across the old City Council building, old Majestic Theatre, and IRD building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Koko at 646 Colombo Street plus empty lots where Lorenzo, Cafe Brix and Moretons were".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking along High Street with the Westpac Building on the left and Holiday Inn on the right".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Colombo Street/Cashel Street intersection (north east view)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "At the end of the day, these workers on the Hotel Grand Chancellor take a ride back to ground".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The base of a pillar on the site of the PGC building on Cambridge Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The skeleton of the DF Souvenirs building, formerly State Theatre, on the corner of Colombo and Goucester Streets".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A digger working on Fleet House, 184-186 Hereford Street, with Calendar Girls (which is staying) behind".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The former Post Office building in Cathedral Square with the Telecom Exchange building behind it".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Worcester Street from Latimer Square to the Christ Church Cathedral".
An aerial photograph of Christ Church Cathedral.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bedford Row looking across to Lichfield Street. By now the Bar Beleza building is an empty site".
The ground floor of the Central Library on Gloucester Street. Books have fallen off the shelves and are in piles in the aisles.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking past Warners Hotel toward the Cathedral from Gloucester Street across the demolition site of the Base Backpackers".
People peering through the cordon fence surrounding the CBD. Despite the sunny day, the mood at the fence was very quiet and somber. Many people seemed to be making a pilgrimage around the cordon, stopping at every viewpoint.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Intersection of Gloucester and Manchester Streets (north-west view)".
A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Spence Kingi pulling a woman from the rubble.
A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Spence Kingi pulling a woman from the rubble.
Damaged buildings on Manchester Street, the facades of which have fallen into the street. The Grand Chancellor can be seen in the background. The photographer comments, "A bike ride around the CBD. Central city, Grand Chancellor at back".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cathedral Square from the air".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The earthquake-damaged DF Souvenirs building (formerly the State Theatre)on Colombo Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from Gloucester Street to Worcester Street (Heritage Hotel) with the Hotel Grand Chancellor in the background".