Fairfax Video, September 2012 (3)

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A video of an excavator demolishing the clock tower of the former railway station on Moorhouse Avenue.

Big Red

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A digitally manipulated image of an excavator. The photographer comments, "This is a huge excavator in the Christchurch CBD. It is being used to clear away the enormous amount of rubble from the buildings being demolished. It seems that nearly all the big machinery from all other the world has been needed in the clean up of the earthquake damaged buildings and utilities".

Fairfax Video, January 2012 (9)

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A video of an excavator demolishing a red-zoned property on Seabreeze Close in Bexley. The house is the first to be demolished in the Bexley residential red zone.

Fairfax Video, August 2012 (3)

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A video of excavators demolishing the former railway station on Moorhouse Avenue. The building was only moderately damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake, but repair work was deemed too costly for the co-owner, Science Alive!.

My Neighbour's House Being De-Constructed

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A digitally manipulated image of an excavator demolishing a house. The photographer comments, "My neighbour I thought was going to be one of the first to be rebuilt in the area after being damaged in the 22 February 2011 earthquake, but the builders have knocked it down and not returned yet".

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An excavator demolishes a building. Cabling has been exposed and hangs from the concrete beams.

Access All Areas

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A digitally manipulated image of the head of a digger resting on a pile of soil. The photographer comments, "You can go anywhere you like when you are a rock star".

Fairfax Video, December 2012 (2)

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A time-lapse video of the demolition of the Farmers Building on Gloucester Street.

Fairfax Video, January 2013 (3)

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A time-lapse video of the demolition of Gloucester Arcade on Gloucester Street.

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An excavator sits on top of a partially demolished building. The concrete posts have been kept intact by the reinforcement cable which runs through them.

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An excavator sits on top of a partially demolished building. The concrete posts have been kept intact by the reinforcement cable which runs through them.

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Part of the Harvey Norman Centre, the one storey extension previously housing Vast Furniture and Freedom Interiors, has been demolished. Various excavators can be seen on site.

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Part of the Harvey Norman Centre, the one storey extension previously housing Vast Furniture and Freedom Interiors, has been demolished. Various excavators can be seen on site.

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Part of the Harvey Norman Centre, the one storey extension previously housing Vast Furniture and Freedom Interiors, has been demolished. Various excavators can be seen on site.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2169

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Part of the Harvey Norman Centre, the one storey extension previously housing Vast Furniture and Freedom Interiors, has been demolished. Various excavators can be seen on site.

Fairfax Video, June 2012 (4)

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A time-lapse video of the demolition of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex.

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Two excavators in front of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.

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Two excavators in front of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.

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Two excavators in front of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2128

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Two excavators and building rubble beside the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.

Fairfax Video, May 2012 (1)

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A time-lapse video of the demolition of the Crowne Plaza hotel, taken from the roof of the Christchurch Casino.

Raring to Go

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A digitally manipulated of a digger's tread and bucket. The photographer comments, "There is nothing more excitable than a grown man with a big, big toy".

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2127

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Two excavators and building rubble beside the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.

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Three excavators sit on top of the demolition rubble where the Crowne Plaza Hotel once stood. In the background are the Forsyth Barr building (left), the Victoria Apartments (centre), and the Environment Court building (right).

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2125

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Two excavators and building rubble in front of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2126

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Two excavators and building rubble in front of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.

Fairfax Video October 2012 (1)

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A video of people protesting the demolition of the Cranmer Courts on Armagh Street. In the background, an excavator is being used to demolish the building. Earlier in the day a man was arrested on a trespassing charge for climbing the fence.

The Final Showdown

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A digitally manipulated image of diggers sitting on top of rubble beside the old Railway Station. The photographer comments, "Which one will be buried 6 foot under?".

A Giant Sized Game of Monopoly

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A digitally manipulated image of the Gap Filler Monopoly board square on Manchester Street. The photographer comments, "On the site of a demolished earthquake damaged building in Christchurch, New Zealand is a Monopoly game square for giants. The Gap Filler Project makes the bare land where once a building once stood into something both interesting and unique and this time they created a massive Monopoly board square. In the game of Monopoly you move your player with a dog, shoe or maybe the hat, but as the most common thing in the City are diggers they have the placed one on the square. There are also two houses on Manchester Street, which is priced at $240".

The War of the Machines

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A digitally manipulated image of a high-reach excavator demolishing a building. The photographer comments, "After the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand the demolition of most of the City Centre began. After two years the government thought that the progress was far too slow, so began the start of the automatic demolition. Luckily when the solar powered demolition machines started to cause indiscriminate death and destruction they were isolated to the South Island and unable to cross the seas".