Category: Buildings
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Anderson Lloyd House on Gloucester Street
This is a new building on Gloucester Street. Local law firm Anderson Lloyd have taken naming rights on the building and are now located in the building after operating from a converted warehouse for three hours (after our quakes). According to their website the building was “developed by Amherst Properties, designed by international architects Fourfoursixsix, […]
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New Building on Moorhouse Avenue
There are a lot of new buildings on Moorhouse Avenue these days, but this building certainly stands out from the rest thanks to the decorative steel on it. I rather like it. It’s certainly very striking.
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New Building on the Victoria and Salisbury Street Intersection
It has been a while since I have been down Victoria Street – it’s often a bit of a crush with the traffic, so I avoid it unless I have to go there. Today I decided it had been a while since visiting the street and it was high time I checked out some of […]
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A New Building in Sydenham
The city suburb of Sydenham was quite severely affected by the series of earthquakes Christchurch experienced – with many buildings being demolished. New buildings are going up though, and this one on Colombo street looks to be fairly close to being finished. It’s nice to see progress and new buildings, as new buildings bring more […]
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Heritage Hotel Building
I took these photos of inside the Heritage Hotel during a tour of the hotel as part of the heritage reconnect weekend. The hotel was built very solidly and had some substantial earthquake restrengthening done to it before our major earthquakes, so it came through the last few years very well. Though it did need […]
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Big School at Christ’s College, A Heritage Building
As part of the Reconnect Heritage event that was on this weekend, I went along to Christ’s College to view what is called the Big School. This building used to be the entire school and all of the lessons were taught here, but today it is the school’s library. Christ’s College is an independent boy’s […]
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No Entrance
A little bit of grunge photography for a difference. This building is next to the Les Mills gym in town. I’m not sure what it was before the earthquakes. Now it’s an interesting photo subject (some would say eye-sore). There’s something captivating about the combination of the tall cabbage tree, the corrugated iron, the grating […]
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Ironside House
This is Ironside House on the corner of Salisbury and Montreal streets. It’s recently been restored after damage sustained due to our series of earthquakes. It’s now also the home of a new restaurant called Harlequin Public House which I must check out sometime soon!
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Copthorne Hotel ‘pancakes’ during demolition
This is the Copthorne Hotel on Colombo Street opposite Victoria Square. It was being demolished today when something went wrong. The building collapsed or ‘pancaked’ and the demo workers had to make a run for it. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but I’m sure they got the fright of their lives. I actually didn’t see […]
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A look at the Cardboard Cathedral
The Cardboard Cathedral was open to the public this week, so I took a look at it at noon today and then went back again a little later when the sun had come out. It’s a lovely space, it feels very inviting and the minimal design is very peaceful. I really like it and it […]
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New Buildings in Merivale
The Merivale suburban shopping area lost quite a few buildings due to our earthquakes – which is no surprise considering how close they are to the central city. These are a few of the new buildings that have popped up over the last year. I’m assuming the exterior is copper…
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