Looking across several properties to a yet to demolished (or possibly removed) house on Seabreeze Close, Pacific Park, Bexley.
A video clip of two large-scale, temporary installations titled Upload (left) and Equilibrium (right). The installations were created by students from The University of Auckland, for CityUps - a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014.
A video clip of two large-scale, temporary installations titled Aurora (front) and Synthesis (back, left). The installations were created by students from Unitec and CPIT, for CityUps - a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014.
A video clip of two large-scale, temporary installations titled Aurora (front) and Synthesis (back, left). The installations were created by students from Unitec and CPIT, for CityUps - a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014.
A photograph looking east along Oxford Terrace from outside the former site of Donna Allfrey's house. Allfrey's house was demolished after her land was zoned Red. The sites of many other demolished houses can be seen to the left.
A photograph of the former sites of several houses on Bangor Street. The houses were demolished after the land was zoned Red. A stake has been placed in the ground to the left. A message written on the stake reads, "412 Oxford Terrace waste water". Grass has begun to grow in the empty sites.
Scavenger Hunt 101 - SH 8 (abandoned building or ruin) The ruins/remains of what was the third highest building in Christchurch, pre earthquakes, the Price Waterhouse Coopers building in Armagh Street. At 76.3 metres ( 21 floors) the demolition has left the basement (now flooded) and these supports. Just one of many photos from Christchurch ...
Low tide on the Avon River at New Brighton/Bexley. Note the original bank and the rock wall slipage on right. The white additions were added in March and April 2011 to protect the properties behind from flooding. Ultimately this area was "red zoned" with all houses removed or to be removed and the ground left till a rehabilitation method can ...
Christchurch's historic Theatre Royal will reopen for business in November, with bookings about to open for the first show, the Royal New Zealand Ballet season of "A Christmas Carol" The 106-year old theatre has been closed for almost four years because of earthquake damage in the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. The $40million rebuild and restoration project will be completed over the next five months and on 17 November 2014, the 'Grand Old Lady' of New Zealand theatre will reopen her doors for performances. With so few venues for performance left in the city, including the Town Hall out of commission indefinitely, the rebuild of the Theatre Royal is very good news for Christchurch audiences Chief executive Neil Cox explains the process of getting oldest Edwardian theatre in the country back in use and mounting the large scale theatrical productions it has been famous for.
The Catholic Cathedral is classified as a category 1 listed heritage building constructed largely of unreinforced stone masonry, and was significantly damaged in the recent Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. In the 2010 event the building presented slight to moderta damage, meanwhile in the 2011 one 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 develop the earthquake analysis of the building by 3D numerical simulations, and the results are compared/calibrated with the observed damage of the 2010 earthquake. Very accurate records were obtained during both earthquakes due to a record station located least than 80 m of distance from the building and used in the simulations. Moreover it is included in the model the soil structure interaction because it was observed that the ground and foundation played an important role on the seismic behavior of the structure. A very good agreement was found between the real observed damage and the nonlinear dynamic simulations described trough inelastic deformation (cracking) and building´s performance.