
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 6 September 2011 showing demolition of the former Convent of Our Lady of Mercy. St Mary's School, run by the Sisters of Mercy, was also housed in this building. At the time of the 4 September 2010 earthquake the building was a private residence. Three years after the 2010-2011 earthquakes there a...
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A photograph of a building on Manchester Street showing the outline left by the demolition of an adjoining building. Wire fencing has been placed around the site as a cordon.
A photograph of a building on Manchester Street showing the outline left by the demolition of an adjoining building. Wire fencing has been placed around the site as a cordon.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch begins the slow recovery process after last weeks devastating 7.1 earthquake. The historic MLC Building on Manchester Street is due for demolition. Manchester Courts".
A doorway on the second storey of the building that formerly housed the Coffee Club on High Street. The door has been exposed by the demolition of the adjoining building.
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 Fairfax, "Christchurch begins the slow recovery process after last weeks devastating 7.1 earthquake. The historic MLC Building on Manchester Street is due for demolition. Manchester Courts".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Colombo and Cashel Streets, looking east along Cashel Street to the big crane on the demolition site of the Westpac building".
Damaged properties, water, sewerage and the demolition of buildings in the city centre are first on the list for the new man in charge of the recovery operation in Canterbury.
The reality of just how many historic buildings will be lost to the Christchurch earthquake is now becoming apparent with Civil Defence adding another 123 buildings to the demolition list.
A photograph submitted by Philip Broderick Willis to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Something about this door being exposed following demolition of the neighbouring building in Cashel Mall…".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Copthorne Hotel on Colombo Street with the demolition site of the Allan McLean building to the left. Liquefaction is visible in the foreground".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of a demolished house on Avonside Drive which was demolished before the formal demolition programme for red zoned houses got underway".
A photograph of a building in Cashel Mall. The demolition of the adjoining building has exposed an old advertising sign on the awning, reading, "High grade footwear at keen prices".
View down Re:Start mall, building on the left has been cordoned off to the public, and a Wilson's carpark on the right which was convert from a demolition site.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch begins the slow recovery process after last weeks devastating 7.1 earthquake. The historic MLC Building on Manchester Street is due for demolition. Manchester Courts".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch begins the slow recovery process after last weeks devastating 7.1 earthquake. The historic MLC Building on Manchester Street is due for demolition. Manchester Courts".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch begins the slow recovery process after last weeks devastating 7.1 earthquake. The historic MLC Building on Manchester Street is due for demolition. Manchester Courts".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch begins the slow recovery process after last weeks devastating 7.1 earthquake. The historic MLC Building on Manchester Street is due for demolition. Manchester Courts".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Amanda Hackett with a chandelier recovered by a Southern Demolition excavator operator from her damaged shop, Shrimpton Radcliffe Design on Victoria Street, following the Canterbury earthquakes
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from Gloucester Street across the demolition site of the Coachman towards the Heritage Hotel in Cathedral Square with Hotel Grand Chancellor (left background)".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch begins the slow recovery process after last weeks devastating 7.1 earthquake. The historic MLC Building on Manchester Street is due for demolition. Manchester Courts".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Children play the Gap Filler piano at 636 Ferry Road".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Children play the Gap Filler piano at 636 Ferry Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "164-170 Hereford Street is used as a concrete recycling and crushing area".
Building rubble from part of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.