A photograph of a flower mosaic on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "A lovely detail from the chair, with the opus outline but no grout yet."
A photograph of the partially-completed mosaic on the arm of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "The debate over opus goes on and we settle for flowing lines in the end."
A photograph of Crack'd for Christchurch's partially-completed mosaic on their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "We had many interesting discussion about the 'opus' (the background cream colour surrounding our pattern). Should it flow like the pattern, or be a geometric grid as these lines drawn on the chair indicate?."
A photograph of lines drawn on the arm of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "The debate over opus goes on and we settle for flowing lines in the end."
A photograph of a flower mosaic on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "A lovely detail from the chair, with the opus outline but no grout yet."
A photograph of a flower mosaic on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "A lovely detail from the chair, with the opus outline but no grout yet."
A photograph of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Wet sealant."
A photograph of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Wet sealant."
A photograph of a section of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Finishing edges and fine details before grouting."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch removing the excess adhesive from a mosaic flower on their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "...and only 59 to go."
A photograph of Crack'd for Christchurch's almost-finished armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "The arm in the foreground is grouted. The rest is not."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch working on their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Most of the pattern is in place, and the opus is slowly being put around each flower. From top: Jennie Cooper and Katherine O'Connor."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch working on their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Most of the pattern is in place, and the opus is slowly being put around each flower. From left: Marie Hudson, Jennie Cooper, and Katherine O'Connor."
A photograph of Helen Campbell using a tool to remove excess grout from Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.
People stand in front of a damaged house in New Brighton. The upper storey at the front of the house has collapsed onto the floor below. The photographer comments, "This house at 158 Marine Parade, New Brighton, Christchurch was owned by the man leaning on the fence. He lived next door and his daughter lived here. During the earthquake the 2nd storey stayed mainly whole, but the 1st collapsed. Luckily the daughter was in the top storey. She was rescued from the building by neighbours, by climbing out of the window and down a ladder. Another piece of luck is that most of the belongings were stored in boxes in the garage at the front. Though the garage also collapsed the boxes appear intact. The owner had tried to sell it previously without success".
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch coating their armchair mosaic with sealant.
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch working on their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Once the opus starts to go on, things speed up. We have a September deadline for the big reveal. Here we are in July. From left: Helen Campbell, Jennie Cooper, and Sharon Wilson."
A photograph of the front of Crack'd for Christchurch's partially-completed armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "We took quotes from some of the letters sent to us and a local ceramicist, Cecelia Freire De Mance, donated her time and wonderful skills to turn these into ceramic tiles to be broken up for the chair. This one reads, 'treasures in our everyday living...'."
Cantabrians are still surrounded broken buildings and empty spaces on the 10th anniversary of the devastating 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The disaster forced 70 percent of the CBD to be demolished. The Government launched an ambitious recovery plan to help it recover in 2012. The Christchurch Central Recovery Plan, dubbed the "blueprint" would dictate the rebuild of the central city. To support it, the Government would complete a series of "anchor projects", to encourage investment in the city and make it a more attractive place to live in. As Anan Zaki reports, the anchor projects appeared to weigh down the progress of the rebuild.
The South New Brighton Domain jetty into the Avon-Heathcote Estuary. A new jetty replaced an older one about 6-8 years ago, then the earthquakes happened! Before the earthquakes it was straight and level and open!
A photograph of broken traffic light in front of a badly-damaged building on the corner of Colombo Street and Tuam Street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates art work from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".
Plywood sheeting covers a broken window in the Gallery Apartments building. On the wall in front is spray-painted "All off, water".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Ann Brower survived a bus being crushed, suffering broken bones and cut tendons in her hand."
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates art work from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".
A photograph of cordon fences, police tape and road cones around the Concrete Club on Manchester Street. Broken glass covers the footpath.
The broken Regent Theatre dome still attached to the building, but with most of its facade fallen away after the June earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Mosaic artist Sarah Rutland creates art work from broken objects and hopes to create art from Canterbury's rubble".
A photograph of cordon fences, police tape and road cones around the Concrete Club on Manchester Street. Broken glass covers the footpath.
A close-up photograph of the top of the Rendezvous Hotel on Gloucester Street, showing cracks in the building and broken windows.