Awaiting demolition
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 July 2013 entitled, "Dangerous Demolition?".
A digitally manipulated image of demolition machinery, with the Hotel So in the background. The photographer comments, "Strange things happen when you use technicolor film".
This will open up the street to the Avon River
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A demolition area and a digger seen through a security fence.
Workers on the demolition site of the ANZ Cathedral Square branch.
As seen from Hereford St over the demolition of the corner buildings.
A vacant demolition site where buildings once stood is surrounded by security fencing.
The basement of the "Price Waterhouse" building after demolition after the Christchurch earthquakes...
A vacant demolition site where buildings once stood. Weeds are growing on the site.
Awaiting demolition. Blue pipes are water supply to anyone still living on Hulverstone Drive.
A vacant demolition site looking towards Tuam and High Streets. Weeds are growing on the site.
All red zoned and it looked like no one is living anywhere in Culver Place. All awaiting demolition.
Two relatively new town houses in the Bexley "Red Zone". Awaiting demolition due to severe land problems. Have been vandalised.
A faded sign reading, 'McCormic Reapers & Binders' painted onto the side of a building, revealed by the demolition of the adjoining building.
A faded sign reading, 'Marrow Bassett & Co' painted onto the side of a brick building, revealed by the demolition of the adjoining building.
Record fines for two companies and a director who illegally dumped contaminated demolition material has highlighted problems with the costs of dumping earthquake rubble from Christchurch.
The back of the facade of the Excelsior Hotel, preserved after the demolition of the hotel. It is being supported by wooden bracing and shipping containers.
The back of the facade of the Excelsior Hotel, preserved after the demolition of the hotel. It is being supported by wooden bracing and shipping containers.
Damaged buildings and empty demolition sites. The building on the left has had tarpaulins placed on it to prevent weather damage to the inside of the building.
A time-lapse video of excavators demolishing the Heritage Tower in Cathedral Square. The video was filmed over three months.
A time-lapse video of New Regent Street, taken from The Press building, which accidentally captured the collapse of the Copthorne Hotel. A cloud of dust from the collapsing building can be seen in the top of the video. The hotel collapsed while it was being demolished.
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A faded sign reading, 'McCormic Reapers & Binders' painted onto the side of a brick building, revealed by the demolition of the adjoining building. Wooden pallets have been placed at the front of the building.
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Conversations between one-time residents of an historic riverside community - in the 1970s the late Elsie Locke and Rod Donald helped to create one of Christchurch's strongest riverside communities. The Avon Loop now subject to post earthquake re-classifation and demolition.
A bit of the now demolished QEII (Queen Elizabeth II) Park running track in the "Gap Filler" on the old Deka site in New Brighton (last occupied by a charity barn before a major fire and subsequent demolition).
See previous photo (exactly 3 hours earlier). Demolition of the support structure for NZ Breweries smokestack in Christchurch. CERES NZ's nibbler is at work, the pipe stack having been removed yesterday (Saturday). This is three hours after the previous photo, and just a pile of rubble sits beside the tree (largely undamaged despite being next...
Demolition of the support structure for NZ Breweries smokestack in Christchurch. CERES NZ's nibbler is at work, the pipe stack having been removed yesterday (Saturday). I retuned three hours later to see what progress had been made and it was GONE! See next photo. Damage to complex was from the 22/02/20011 earthquake.