A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Carlton Country Club at 1 Papanui Road in Merivale. This is the former site of the historic Carlton Hotel, built 1906, damaged by the earthquakes and demolished on 9 April 2011".
185 Chairs, an art installation by artist Peter Majendie, which is a memorial to those who died as a result of the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking east along Armagh Street, empty sites to the left and right. Road crew in the distance can be seen working on Madras Street".
A photograph of Gaby Montejo's Milk Fight - a dairy-fuelled urban food fight, which was part of FESTA 2014. Milk Fight was held on the former Convention Centre site at 100 Peterborough Street.
A photograph of Gaby Montejo's Milk Fight - a dairy-fuelled urban food fight, which was part of FESTA 2014. Milk Fight was held on the former Convention Centre site at 100 Peterborough Street.
A demolition site on the corner of Manchester and Cashel Street. A truck is parked next to a pile of rubble behind a security fence. The damaged awnings of the stores to the left can be seen in the background.
Photographs of the Brick Art unveiling, Greening the Rubble, on the former Asko site - corner of Victoria and Salisbury Streets, Christchurch 8 February 2011 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries CCL-Brickart-2011-IMG_2523
Photographs of the Brick Art unveiling, Greening the Rubble, on the former Asko site - corner of Victoria and Salisbury Streets, Christchurch 8 February 2011. From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries CCL-Brickart-2011-IMG_2459
A photograph of a vacant site on the corner of Manchester Street and Gloucester Street. This is to be the location of a large-scale sculpture titled Altitude, which is part of LUXCITY.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "View from Cashel Mall looking over the Whitcoulls site and the demolition of Wendy's in Hereford Street to the back of the ANZ bank in Cathedral Square".
A photograph of a sign describing the earthquake memorial created on the former site of St Luke's church. The memorial is in the form of 185 pieces of stone recovered from the church.
A photograph of a hot food truck on a vacant site on Worcester Street, during the launch of Freerange Press's latest journal, Freerange Vol. 7: The Commons. The event was part of FESTA 2013.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from Gloucester Street across the demolition site of the Coachman and Canterbury Times (Christchurch Star?) buildings with Heritage Hotel on the left and Novotel in the centre".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from Gloucester Street across the demolition site of the Coachman and Canterbury Times (Christchurch Star?) buildings with Heritage Hotel on the left and Novotel in the centre".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from Gloucester Street across the demolition site of the Coachman and Canterbury Times (Christchurch Star?) buildings with Heritage Hotel on the left and Novotel in the centre".
A photograph of a paste-up on the cordon fence surrounding the Crowne Plaza demolition site. The paste-up is in the shape of an awards ribbon, and reads, "Voted Chch best demo 2012".
In 2013 Becca Wood, Spatial Performance Practitioner, and Molly Mullen, Applied Theatre Practitioner, collaborated to create a short ambulatory performance with audio score for a group of drama educators attending a conference workshop on the possibilities of walking as performance. The performance was created remotely from the intended site: Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Following the destruction of the 2012 earthquake, this site was in a state of transformation and recovery. The performance walk attended to the histories, geographies and politics of this place, somatically, architecturally and socially. This paper engages with three critical questions: How might mediated listening and walking activate the coming together of bodies and place? What performative shifts occurred for the participants in the walk and workshop? How might we come to our senses? Through a performative practice of mediated site-based listening and walking, this paper is a reflection on the creative process and performance. We consider the potential for technologically mediated performance to offer new modes for learning and creative practice through interdisciplinary and evolving intermedial practices. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/crde20/current AM - Accepted Manuscript
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The basement of the Louis Vuitton Building on the corner of Colombo Street and Cathedral Square, exposed now the building has been demolished. The Christ Church Cathedral can be seen in the background".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "207-211 Manchester Street demolished. The man on the roof (centre, slightly right) is throwing bricks off the collapsed roof of the old church hall".
Disasters are a critical topic for practitioners of landscape architecture. A fundamental role of the profession is disaster prevention or mitigation through practitioners having a thorough understanding of known threats. Once we reach the ‘other side’ of a disaster – the aftermath – landscape architecture plays a central response in dealing with its consequences, rebuilding of settlements and infrastructure and gaining an enhanced understanding of the causes of any failures. Landscape architecture must respond not only to the physical dimensions of disaster landscapes but also to the social, psychological and spiritual aspects. Landscape’s experiential potency is heightened in disasters in ways that may challenge and extend the spectrum of emotions. Identity is rooted in landscape, and massive transformation through the impact of a disaster can lead to ongoing psychological devastation. Memory and landscape are tightly intertwined as part of individual and collective identities, as connections to place and time. The ruptures caused by disasters present a challenge to remembering the lives lost and the prior condition of the landscape, the intimate attachments to places now gone and even the event itself.
A photograph of a mural on a wall in the former site of a building on Norwich Quay in Lyttelton. Sections of reinforcing steel and other construction material have been laid up against the mural.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "As we went by, we recorded the current state of the site of the urgent demolition in Redcliffs from last week. To our surprise when processing the photo, we noticed how damaged the surrounding houses are, particularly the house with the red tiles".
A photograph looking east down London Street from the north-west corner of the London and Canterbury Street intersection. The Volcano Cafe, Lava Bar, and Lyttelton Fisheries have been demolished on the left side of the street, leaving vacant sites.
A damaged building on the corner of Montreal and Armagh Streets, near Cranmer Square. To the right, a new tilt-slab building is being constructed on the site of a demolished building and the damaged Cranmer Centre can be seen.
A photograph of students from Unitec on the site of their temporary structure titled Aurora. The structure is being created for CityUps - a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014.
A pile of rubble on the corner of Manchester and Worcester Streets. In the background, the Design and Arts College and the Heritage Hotel can be seen.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The remains of SBS House, on the south-east corner of Worcester and Manchester Streets. The Octagon Live is behind".
A photograph of people walking beneath a temporary sculpture titled Illuminate, on a vacant site on Worcester Street. The sculpture was created by students from Unitec's Architecture department for Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession which was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a temporary sculpture titled Illuminate being installed on a vacant site on Worcester Street. The sculpture was created by students from Unitec's Architecture department for Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession which was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a temporary sculpture titled Illuminate being installed on a vacant site on Worcester Street. The sculpture was created by students from Unitec's Architecture department for Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession which was the main event of FESTA 2013.