Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Durham Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Kilmore Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Kilmore Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Kilmore Street".
A pile of pipes and cables outside the Town hall.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Kilmore Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peterborough Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peterborough Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peterborough Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Kilmore Street".
A photograph of the entrance of the Crowne Plaza Hotel taken from inside the hotel. The front windows have smashed, the glass scattering across the courtyard and foyer. Sections of the ceiling have collapsed, the panels fallen onto the floor in front of the rotating doors.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a stairwell in the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the corner of Kilmore and Durham Streets. Large sections of the concrete wall behind the stair rail have broken away to reveal the steel reinforcement underneath.
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office on the ground floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Sections of the ceiling and plaster dust have fallen onto the ground and there is a large crack in the wall to the right.
A photograph of looking west out a window of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Building on Armagh Street. To the left is the Victoria Apartments with a slight forward lean. Victoria Square is in the centre of the photograph and to the right is the Crowne Plaza Hotel. In the foreground is the Copthorne Hotel.
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team approaching the Crowne Plaza hotel from Victoria Square. Tape has been draped in front of the stairs as a cordon. Several tiles have come loose in front of the tape.
The Crowne Plaza has a noticeable split down the middle, where windows and balconies don't quite line up. Photograph taken from Victoria Street.
A photograph of a religious pamphlet attached to a cordon fence. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Crowne Plaza Hotel, corner Kilmore and Victoria Streets. Demolition".
Kilmore Street, looking west from Manchester Street. The street has been barred off by wire fencing. A pile of steel, construction equipment and a portaloo sit in front of the cordon.
A photograph of a city centre map attached to a cordon fence. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Crowne Plaza Hotel, corner Kilmore and Victoria Streets. Demolition".
A photograph of a city centre map attached to a cordon fence. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Crowne Plaza Hotel, corner Kilmore and Victoria Streets. Demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking across Victoria Square in the early evening to the snow covered heap of rubble that is the remnants of the Crowne Plaza".
An aerial photograph of Kilmore Street in the central city with the Town Hall complex in the centre and Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion on the cleared site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
A photograph submitted by Francis Vallance to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "The Crowne Plaza Hotel which was condemned for demolition after being severely damaged in the February 2011 earthquake".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking down Victoria Street towards the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Keep an eye on this as nearly all these buildings are due for demolition".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking down Victoria Street towards the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Keep an eye on this as nearly all these buildings are due for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from north east to south west across the CBD".
An aerial photograph of Victoria Square and the surrounding area.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Victoria Square".
A photograph of a participant at an outdoor pizzeria earth-building workshop. The event was part of FESTA 2012.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from north-east to south-west across the Arts Centre, Christ's College and Hagley Park".