The 11 frame cartoon strip tells a story about planning for a new Christchurch city post-earthquake. After filling the plan with every possible thing he can think of the planner puts the artist in an empty corner and the whole thing is delivered into a black hole that represents 'The real world'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
A video of Dr Ann McEwan, architectural historian and heritage consultant, talking about the architectural details and significance of heritage buildings in Christchurch. The video includes discussion of the Provincial Chambers buildings, the MedLab building, and Eliza's Manor.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 9 February 2011 entitled, "Mourning Manchester Courts".
A debate on the architectural way forward for earthquake hit Christchurch ahead of an exhibition and series of talks initiated by the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Information on events, weekly services, music, history and architecture, news and newsletters and current and archived sermons. Includes both pre-earthquake information, and current life of the cathedral.
Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings have repeatedly been shown to perform poorly in large magnitude earthquakes, with both New Zealand and Australia having a history of past earthquakes that have resulted in fatalities due to collapsed URM buildings. A comparison is presented here of the URM building stock and the seismic vulnerability of Christchurch and Adelaide in order to demonstrate the relevance to Australian cities of observations in Christchurch resulting from the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquake swarm. It is shown that the materials, architecture and hence earthquake strength of URM buildings in both countries is comparable and that Adelaide and other cities of Australia have seismic vulnerability sufficient to cause major damage to their URM buildings should a design level earthquake occur. Such an earthquake is expected to cause major building damage, and fatalities should be expected.
The red brick, cream stone and plaster building on the corner of Manchester and Hereford Street, proudly displays the architectural features becoming commonplace in the commercial confines of this…
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 28 May 2011 entitled, "Childhood Churches".
A story submitted by Jo Reid to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 16 December 2011 entitled, "Mother's Milestone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 30 July 2011 entitled, "Lost Landmarks".
A story submitted by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 2 August 2011 entitled, "New Light".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 19 December 2011 entitled, "Another Quilt Finished for 2011.... A Wedding Present for Jo and Tahu...".
Pre-February Earthquake
A story submitted by Catherine Lee Clarke to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A letter written by Roz Johnson to family members overseas.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 6 June 2011 entitled, "Circumnavigating the City".
A news item titled, "Godley House Farewell", published on the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's website on Thursday, 29 September 2011.
A story submitted by Louise to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 21 November 2011 entitled, "Riding through the Red Zone".
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 29 August 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 31 October 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 14 November 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 10 October 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
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A story submitted by Elizabeth to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Candy Green to the QuakeStories website.