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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The City Council building in Tuam Street viewed from the top of the BNZ building in Cathedral Square".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The City Council Administration building on Tuam Street, viewed from Lichfield Street".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The City Council Administration building on Tuam Street, viewed from Lichfield Street".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The City Council Administration building on Tuam Street, viewed from Lichfield Street".

Council building chief outlines stickering process

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The collapsed PGC and CTV buildings in the Christchurch CBD were both"green stickered"by city council inspectors following the earthquake in September last year.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The rear view of the former City Council Building viewed from Lichfield Street".

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An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Old Christchurch City Council administration building on Tuam Street".

Christchurch City Council questioned over russian roulette

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The Christchurch City Council has been questioned over whether it was playing russian roulette with its citizens with its rules on earthquake prone buildings.

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A photograph of the Christchurch City Council car park building on Madras Street. The bottom windows of the building have been boarded up and the building has been fenced off.

Christchurch council grilled over buildings at quake commission

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The Christchurch City Council has faced tough questioning at the Royal Commission into the Canterbury earthquakes over its role in ensuring buildings are earthquake strengthened.

Quake hit building owners given three month deadline to repair

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The Property Council says an ultimatum from the Christchurch City Council to owners of earthquake damaged commercial buildings will add to the stress business people are already under.

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The City Council building looked rather spectacular on this late autumn day".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking north east across the old City Council building, old Majestic Theatre, and IRD building".

The Top Wardrobe Salesman Hits Town

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Boarded up windows on the former Christchurch City Council building in Tuam Street. The photographer comments, "This guy always meets his sales target".

Owners of quake damaged heritage buildings in Chch briefed

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The Christchurch City Council says it needs Government money to help repair its earthquake damaged heritage and character buildings.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christchurch City Council building, 165 Tuam Street".

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A photograph of emergency tape cordoning off Hereford Street near the end of the Christchurch City Council building. Tape has also been draped around St Elmo Courts as a cordon.

The old Civic Building on Manchester Street

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A colour photograph showing damage to the former City Council Civic Offices following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

"Good grief! Earthquake?" "City Council" 24 September 2010

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Two people stare at a demolition scene. The man thinks there must have been an earthquake but the woman advises him that it was the city council. Refers to plans to demolish three buildings in Wellington's Willis Street without public consultation. The buildings due for demolition are owned by Singaporean Grand Complex Properties, which plans eventually to build a multimillion-dollar high-rise on the site, reports stuff.co.nz. The Canterbury earthquake happened 4th September and as a result there has been a lot of discussion about the need to preserve historic buildings if at all possible. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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A photograph of a sign reading, "Save this building", on the badly-damaged Christchurch City Council building on Tuam Street.

Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :'There's no covered stadium... but hey... we've g…

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Shows a huge glass bell representing a 'Cone of silence' over the City Council. Context: Refers to ructions in the City Council. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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A demolition site. In the background is the former Christchurch City Council building, cranes and the Westpac Building on the left.

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A photograph of building rubble from the partially-demolished former City Council Civic Offices on Manchester Street.

'Think of people not buildings' - CHCH property owner

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Some Christchurch building owners say a bulldozer's the best option, despite the city council calling for government help to rebuild heritage buildings damaged by the earthquake.

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The west face of the former Christchurch City Council building, seen from Colombo Street.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Old Municipal Council Chambers in Worcester Street".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "City Council admin building (centre), Cathedral Square (lower left), Arts Centre (centre right) and public hospital (upper right)".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The car parking building on Manchester Street. This building has a question mark over its future".

Nisbet, Alistair, 1958- :'What's that noise Bob...Quake? A leak?' 30 Janua…

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Inside the Christchurch City Council building someone wonders what that noise is. Outside a gigantic wave of 'public discontent' rushes towards them. Context: Relates to anger and a protest of 4000 people at what they see as poor performance by the City Council in dealing with earthquake issues. The final straw was the Council's decision on the advice of its consultants to award the Council Chief Executive Tony Marryatt a $68,000 14% pay rise mid December 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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The rear of the old City Council building on Tuam Street, seen from Cashel Street.