The Crowne Plaza has a noticeable split down the middle, where windows and balconies don't quite line up. Photograph taken from Victoria Street.
Damage to a building on the corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets. The windows are broken, and part of the awning has collapsed.
People looking into the Red Zone through viewing windows at the east end of Re:Start. Flowers has been threaded through the cordon fence.
A damaged building on Liverpool Street. A sign in the window reads, 'Our family home'. Security fencing has been placed around the building to restrict access.
A red-stickered building in Papanui, cordoned off with danger tape and a crowd barrier. The windows have been boarded up and spray-painted with USAR markings.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Christ Church Cathedral.
Damage to the Cranmer Courts, seen from behind cordon fencing and road cones. Some parts of the wall and windows has been boarded up.
A red-stickered building in Papanui, cordoned off with danger tape and a crowd barrier. The windows have been boarded up and spray-painted with USAR markings.
Detail of damage to the Canterbury Provincial Chambers buildings. Large cracks run up the corner of the building, and the stained glass windows are broken and buckled.
Bricks and a window frame fallen from the wall of a single-storey building. The gap left by the fallen wall has been covered with plywood sheeting.
McCormack and Mckellar Auctioneers store on Victoria Street. Through the window is a sign that says "McCormack and Mckellar are open for business".
A photograph of Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace. The grass has not been mowed and one of the windows has been boarded up with plywood. A yellow sticker on the door indicates that the access to the house is restricted. There is also a sign in the window to the left, depicting a bulldozer with a line through it. The photographer comments, "Avon Loop resident Donna Allfrey made the sign for Duff".
A photograph of Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace. The grass has not been mowed and one of the windows has been boarded up with plywood. A yellow sticker on the door indicates that the access to the house is restricted. There is also a sign in the window to the left, depicting a bulldozer with a line through it. The photographer comments, "Avon Loop resident Donna Allfrey made the sign for Duff".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "These paintings on the boarded-up windows are a great way of cheering up a damaged building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "These paintings on the boarded-up windows are a great way of cheering up a damaged building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "These paintings on the boarded-up windows are a great way of cheering up a damaged building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "These paintings on the boarded-up windows are a great way of cheering up a damaged building".
A photograph of closed businesses on High Street. USAR codes have been spray-painted on the windows and furniture is still sitting outside.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Books on the floor of the Central Christchurch City Library, viewed through the window on Gloucester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "23 Seabreeze Close, Bexley. The view through the window shows how much liquefaction collected in the garage".
A collapsed wall above the windows of a brick house on Centaurus Road. Bricks have fallen into the building and left a hole.
Damage to the Cranmer Courts building. Sections of the walls have collapsed, and wooden bracing has been placed across some of the windows.
Objects lie on the floor of a shop where they have fallen. Reflected in the windows is the damaged brickwork of buildings opposite.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. A firefighter in a broken window of the 7 story MLC building on Manchester Street".
A photograph of an advertising image in the window of Sugar Hair and Beauty, on the ground floor of the Inland Revenue Building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "These paintings on the boarded-up windows are a great way of cheering up a damaged building".
A photograph of the eastern corner of the Cranmer Centre. The masonry around the windows has been removed and placed on pallets below.
A photograph of the Forsyth Barr building on Colombo Street. A column of windows on the left-hand side has been boarded up.
Windows of the Durham Street Methodist Church that have been braced and weather proofed with timber. The plaster around them is badly cracked.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "These paintings on the boarded-up windows are a great way of cheering up a damaged building".
