The floors of the CTV Building hanging from the elevator shaft.
The damaged elevator shaft on the site of the CTV Building.
A photograph of the entrance to the Diabetes Centre on Hagley Avenue. The panelling around the elevator has been removed.
A photograph of the elevator shaft of the collapsed CTV Building. The shaft shows significant damage from fire.
A photograph of the elevator shaft of the CTV Building. The rubble from the rest of the collapsed building has been cleared away in front. Road cones and emergency tape have been placed around the tower as a cordon.
A photograph of emergency management personnel near the site of the CTV Building. The rubble from the collapsed building has been cleared, leaving only the elevator tower. Road cones and emergency tape have been placed around the tower as a cordon.
A digger at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Piles of rubble on the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can be seen.
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Members of the New Zealand and Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams working on the CTV site with the elevator shaft still standing in the background.
A photograph of emergency management personnel standing on the intersection of Madras Street and Cashel Streets. In the background is the elevator tower of the collapsed CTV building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of the CTV Building on Madras Street where 118 people died. All that remains is the elevator shaft and stairwell to the right".
A photograph of emergency management personnel taking photographs of a dip in the floor of Grenadier House on Madras Street. The front windows have smashed, the glass scattering over the foyer and footpath outside. The wall next to the elevator is buckled.
Workmen approach the elevator shaft of the CTV building - 05 March 2011 The CTV building claimed 115 lives when it collapsed in a pile of smoking rubble on 22 February 2011 during a 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch and only the lift shaft was left standing.
Copy of a file photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The New Zealand Express Company's new building, corner of Hereford Street and Manchester Street. Electric lighting, pumping, elevators, May & Otway's fire alarms, bells and telephones, supplied by Messrs Turnbull & Jones Ltd. Manchester courts MLC building from The Weekly Press 'New Zealand Exhibition Year Special Industrial & Commercial Number' December 1906".