A photograph of a colorful crocheted cover for a shipping container. It has various patterns including a black swan, a four leaf clover, the New Zealand flag, some heart patterns, a white house, a pair of pears, a variety of flowers, and the words "Joe & Nat", "Mt Pleasant", and "love from Tauranga".
The Town Hall, with broken windows covered in sheeting and wooden battens.
A photograph of the badly-damaged Odeon Theatre. A large pile of bricks covers the ground beside the wall.
A photograph of the badly-damaged Odeon Theatre. A large pile of bricks covers the ground beside the wall.
A photograph of a liquefaction-covered residential property. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "11 Brynn Lane, Bexley".
A photograph of a shipping container covered in a crocheted quilt, on the corner of Nayland Street and Wakefield Avenue in Sumner.
A photograph of a colourful crocheted cover for a shipping container. It has various patterns including a heart and a group of red flowers.
A photograph of a colourful crochetted cover for a shipping container. It has various patterns such as a yellow flower and the words "Joe & Nat".
A photograph of a colourful crocheted cover for a shipping container. It has various patterns such as a black swan, two hearts and vibrant colors.
A photograph of a house with a liquefaction-covered garden. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "24 Jean Batten Place, Horseshoe Lake, Burwood".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel covered by a huge mound of demolition rubble, ready to fill the basement".
A photograph of a colourful crocheted cover for a shipping container. It has a variety of patterns including a heart, a four leaf clover and some flowers.
A photograph of a shipping container covered in a crocheted quilt, outside The Marine Bar and Backpackers on the corner of Nayland Street and Wakefield Avenue in Sumner.
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".
A photograph of a colourful crocheted cover for a shipping container. It has a variety of patterns including a black swan, a red flower, and a heart with "hope" written in it.
A photograph of a fenced-off property at the end of Mitcham Place, Bexley. The house has been covered in temporary cladding and there are signs on the fence outlining hazards and dangers.
A photograph of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers on Durham Street. The building has been cordoned off with wire fencing and the roof covered by plastic sheeting. A crane can be seen to the right.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of the Strange's building on the north-west corner of Lichfield and High Streets. Bonnington House can also be seen, covered with scaffolding during the repair process".
A patchwork quilt suspended from the railings of a broken wall on the corner of Dublin and Winchester Street in Lyttelton. "Lyttelton, don't let the blues get you" has been stitched into the quilt, which is covered in snow.
A photograph of a colourful crocheted cover for a shipping container. It has various patterns including a heart, a variety of flowers, and the words "Joe & Nat", "Mt Pleasant", and "love from Tauranga". A Nissan Caravan is parked next to the container.
A photograph of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers on Durham Street. The building has been cordoned off with wire fencing and the roof covered by plastic sheeting. Much of the masonry has been removed and a wooden structure constructed inside. A crane can be seen behind.
Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean. To the left, shipping containers line the street. One has been placed on the footpath next to where the UC QuakeBox is sitting and covered with a patchwork quilt.
The Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is a category 1 listed heritage building constructed largely of unreinforced stone masonry, and was significantly damaged in the recent Canterbury earthquakes. The building experienced ground shaking in excess of its capacity leading to block failures and partial collapse of parts of the building, which left the building standing but still posing a significant hazard. In this paper we discuss the approach to securing the building, and the interaction of the structural, heritage and safety demands involved in a dynamic seismic risk environment. We briefly cover the types of failures observed and the behaviour of the structure, and investigate the performance of both strengthened and un-strengthened parts of the building. Seismic strengthening options are investigated at a conceptual level. We draw conclusions as to how the building performed in the earthquakes, comment on the effectiveness of the strengthening and securing work and discuss the potential seismic strengthening methods.