For Best View Press"L" All 23 Arts Centre heritage buildings received significant damage in the earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks, and all have been issued with a red “Unsafe” placard. As a result of the magnitude of this damage, the Arts Centre Trust Board— the body charged with ensuring this iconic precinct is preserved and pr...
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File reference: CCL-2012-03-17-IMG_0356 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
the arts centre - under repair following the earthquake.
looking past the peacock fountain to the arts centre - under repair following the earthquake.
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Arts Centre on Rolleston Avenue".
Christchurch's iconic Arts Centre has been off-limits to the public since it was damaged in the Christchurch earthquakes.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 23 December 2012, looking down Worcester Boulevard with the Arts Centre in the bottom right.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Arts Centre, Hereford Street. Careful palleting of the pieces of the Arts Centre which fell to the ground".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Arts Centre, Hereford Street. Careful palleting of the pieces of the Arts Centre which fell to the ground".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A sign on the protective fence around the Arts Centre, Hereford Street. The sign reads, 'The Arts Centre, site closed'".
This winter-eve is warm, Humid the air! leafless, yet soft as spring, The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening, Lovely all times she lies, lovely to-night!— From "Thyrsis: A Monody" by Matthew Arnold 1822–1888
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Quake damage to the Arts Centre. Arts Centre director Ken Franklin".