Blog from Christchurch business-owner Nicky Arts detailing the rebuild of the Christchurch CBD following the earthquakles of 2010 and 2011.
An aerial photograph of the Town Hall on Kilmore Street.
A view of the fenced-off Town Hall from Peterborough Street.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Town Hall from Durham Street".
A photograph of the back of the Christchurch Town Hall, taken from across the river in Victoria Square.
A photograph of the back of the Christchurch Town Hall, taken from across the river in Victoria Square.
A photograph of the back of the Christchurch Town Hall, taken from across the river in Victoria Square.
A photograph of the back of the Christchurch Town Hall, taken from across the river in Victoria Square.
An aerial photograph looking south west over Victoria Square with the Town Hall to the right.
One of the areas most affected by the February earthquake was the port town of Lyttelton, south of Christchurch.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Pallet Pavillion and Town Hall, corner Kilmore and Durham Streets".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Pallet Pavillion and Town Hall, corner Kilmore and Durham Streets".
A video about the earthquake damage to the Christchurch Town Hall. The video shows footage of a tour through the inside of the Town Hall, recorded on a GoPro camera. It also includes interviews with Councillor Glenn Livingstone and Councillor Tim Carter about their impressions of the damage and the work that will be needed to fix the building.
An aerial photograph of Kilmore Street in the central city with the Town Hall complex in the centre and Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion on the cleared site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Provincial towns and rural communities around the country say they will be financially ruined under proposals to strengthen buildings following the Christchurch earthquakes. Dale Williams is Mayor of Otorohanga, Dave Cull is Mayor of Dunedin and Lawrence Yule is Mayor of Hastings and president of Local Government NZ.
A photograph of a paste-up from the Roger Sutton/Man About Town series, created by Nathan Ingram and Jemma Brown. The paste-up is titled "Best Man", and is on the Crichton Cobbers building on Fitzgerald Avenue.
A PDF copy of pages 80-81 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Roger Sutton/Man About Town'.
Looking across to the Town Hall. Will it stay or will it go?
Volunteers delivering one of the painted pianos to the site of a demolished building in town.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Pallet Pavillion and Town Hall, corner Kilmore and Durham Streets".
An aerial photograph of the Town Ball, a bar built inside a inflatable ball on Manchester Street.
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Two relatively new town houses in the Bexley "Red Zone". Awaiting demolition due to severe land problems. Have been vandalised.
Full of weeds after nearly two years of neglect. First time I have been in Victoria Square in over two years.
The Earthquake Recovery Minister says the Christchurch City Council has wasted an opportunity in deciding to save the Town Hall, instead of building a new performing arts precinct.
An aerial photograph looking south over the Christchurch CBD centred on Colombo Street. The Town Hall and beginnings of Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion can be seen to the bottom left.
A photograph of street art on the side of the Victoria Mansions building. The artwork is part of the "Roger Sutton/Man About Town" paste-up series created by Nathan Ingram and Jemma Brown.
An aerial photograph of Cambridge Terrace with the cleared PGC site in the upper centre. The photograph was captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The area inside the cordon that is north of the river which encompasses the PGC site and Kilmore Street. The expectation is that this area will soon be outside the cordon".
A video of journalist Charlie Gates introducing the 2014 World Buskers Festival. Gates visits former festival venues in the Christchurch central city and the new performance venues for the 2014 festival, to show how the city has changed since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.
An entry from Maxine Bennett's blog, "Blackbird Has Spoken: Having a go at this blogging lark" (http://www.blackbirdhasspoken.com). The entry for 12 February 2013 is titled "Of sorrow and salvage. Op-Shop Show-Off Feb 12th 2013". Maxine writes, "I’m Max, an English girl in, and in love with New Zealand, and the New Zealander husband. In an almost forgotten previous life I worked as a psychotherapist and psychiatric nurse; now I’m the contented stay at home mother of Claudine who's almost 3, and the baby-boy-currently-gestating. We live a quiet life in a small rural town in our arts and crafts house, but dream of moving out to some land one day, to build our own home and enjoy a long view. I like to laugh, be outside, craft, grow, op-shop, read and cook. My little Kiwi family, learning new things, quiet, beauty and reading blogs make me the happiest of all. My blog is a record of my enthusiasms, fleeting and enduring, and a means of communication with you kindred spirits near and far." Note that the blog post has been converted to PDF format for archiving, which may have resulted in changes to the formatting and layout of the page.