A photograph of the partially-demolished City Council Civic Offices on Manchester Street. The rooms inside have been exposed by the partial demolition of the building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking along Chester St West - there are already a number of empty sites and several more buildings due for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street. Demolition rubble and a shop window mural reflected in a mirror on the back wall of a shop".
Intersection of Colombo and St Asaph Street, where road cones have been placed on the road to divert traffic from a demolition site in the background.
The back of the facade of the Excelsior Hotel, preserved after the demolition of the hotel. It is being supported by wooden bracing and shipping containers.
20120805_7586_1D3-600 30 seconds later the dust drifts across the city. Following the demolition of the earthquake damaged Newstalk ZB building. #2649
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of Kenton Chambers, 190-192 Hereford Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of Warners Hotel at 36-50 Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of Warners Hotel at 36-50 Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The link between Morley House and Durham Street Methodist Church".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Intersection of Colombo and Brougham Streets".
A crane on London Street in Lyttelton, lifting a platform outside the Empire Hotel.
A crane on London Street in Lyttelton, lifting a platform outside the Empire Hotel.
A digger clearing building rubble from demolished buildings on the corner of London Street in Lyttelton.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "24 London Street, Lyttelton. Where the Harbourlight Theatre was".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hotel Grand Chancellor, Cashel Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "South-west corner of Colombo and Tuam Streets".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of the CTV Building on Cashel Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Louis Vuitton Building being demolished, COlombo Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Neither of these buildings will be there for much longer".
The partially demolished Ozone Hotel in New Brighton, with a digger in the background.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "PWC, Copthorne and Forsyth Barr, central city".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "PWC, Copthorne and Forsyth Barr, central city".
The sign for St Mary and St Athanasius Church on Edgeware Road. The church has been demolished.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "PWC, Copthorne and Forsyth Barr, central city".
An aerial photograph looking north-east over the Christchurch Arts Centre, where major repairs are underway. The Christchurch Art Gallery is visible in the distance.
The Earthquake Commission says 95 percent of the invoices it gets from contractors repairing houses in Christchurch are paid out within two to three weeks.
In June, the Hororata hotel in Canterbury closed after it became clear there was no economic way to repair damage caused by the September earthquake.
The Minister for Earthquake Recovery, Gerry Brownlee, says the recovery process from Canterbury's earthquake is moving quickly, despite strong aftershocks yesterday setting back repair work.
A Christchurch man, whose house was damaged in the earthquakes, has challenged his insurer's CEO to live in it if she truly believes it's repairable.