Photograph by Paul Corliss 2938

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A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "192 Bridle Path Road, Heathcote".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1911

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A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "93 Bridle Path Road, Heathcote".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1910

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A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "93 Bridle Path Road, Heathcote".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1913

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A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "93 Bridle Path Road, Heathcote".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 2937

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A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "192 Bridle Path Road, Heathcote".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1914

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A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "93 Bridle Path Road, Heathcote".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 2940

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A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "200 Bridle Path Road, Heathcote".

Koen Broekema's Photograph 154

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A close up of the entrance to the cathedral. Bricks have fallen from the wall causing damage to the balustrade. Bracing has been placed against the front wall to limit further damage.

Julia Holden's 2012 Photographs 064

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A photograph of badly-damaged buildings on High Street. There are piles of building rubble behind the fence.

Julia Holden's 2012 Photographs 065

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A photograph of bricks and building rubble stacked in front of the west-facing wall of the badly-damaged McKenzie & Willis building on the corner of High Street and Tuam Street.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2629

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A pile of brick in front a damaged building in Christchurch central. The site grounds are overgrown.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2631

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Looking through the cordon fence, a pile of brick in front a damaged building in Christchurch central.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2173

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A construction site where some ground foundation has been laid down. In the background is a damaged brick property.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2630

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Detail of a damaged building in Christchurch Central. Bit of broken furniture, fabric and brick rubble can be seen.

I'll Kiss It Better

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Digitally manipulated image of graffiti on a brick building on St Asaph Street. The graffiti depicts a sticking plaster over a broken section of the wall, with the words "I'll kiss it better". The photographer comments, "After the 22 February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch band aid plasters starting to appear in different parts of the city on damaged buildings. A year later most can still be seen. This one was once a whole plaster, but it has slowly broken up where it crossed the gap. The red bricks seen to symbolise the terrible wounds caused to the City and it's people".

Koen Broekema's Photograph 086

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Damaged brickwork of Christ Church Cathedral. The outer layer of stonework has fallen away revealing red bricks on the inside.

Cracks in the Veneer

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Large cracks run through the brick cladding of this house in Wainoni. The photographer comments, "During the numerous earthquakes in Christchurch the land which ran alongside the Avon river on Avonside Drive slumped towards the waterway. Houses which were wooden framed and had an external brick veneer started to sink into the liquefied soil. This caused the brick walls to crack, but the houses' occupants though shook up were saved by the wooden framework from the houses collapsing on them".

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2213

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Damage to a row of residential properties. Brick has fallen from some secton and covered up with a timber board.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1811

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Damaged house on Chester St East with the windows boarded up. There is also a pile of bricks in front of the house.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1911

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Damage to a building on Colombo Street. It is surrounded by piles of brick and overgrown plants. Part of a graffitied wall is also visible.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2187

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Damage property behind a fence. A front section of the house has already been removed, and bricks have fallen off a section of the wall.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1910

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Damage to a building on Colombo Street. It is surrounded by piles of brick and overgrown plants. Part of a graffitied wall is also visible.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2198

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Damaged property that housed the Talon Arms, a Gunsmith store on Worcester Street. On it are some signs that say 'Free bricks here' and 'Guns gone clear'.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1909

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Damage to a building on Colombo Street. It is surrounded by piles of brick and overgrown plants, and part of a graffitied wall is also visible.

Band-Aid Bandits Photograph 2

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A photograph of a paste-up on an earthquake-damaged brick wall. The paste-up depicts a bandaid with a speech bubble reading, "I'll kiss it better".

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 150

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A damaged chimney on the roof of a house in Kaiapoi. The bricks have crumbled onto the roof where they lie precariously. These will have to be removed and the rest of the chimney deconstructed by hand.

The State of Christchurch Heritage

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A digitally manipulated image of a broken window. The photographer comments, "There is hardly anything left of Christchurch's proud heritage buildings. Most older buildings were made of brick and though they should have had improvements to make them withstand a medium earthquake most did not. They were badly damaged when hit with a series of earthquakes that were up to 2.2g at the epicentre and 1.88g in the City".

wairoa street red zone

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one of Christchurch's abandoned suburbs. The land moved - bricks and block walls everywhere collapsed - two multi story buildings folded - 184 people died. Wooden framed houses largely stayed up, many concrete slabs cracked, power poles leaned in liquid ground, surface bubbled, services ruptured .... damage to the cbd still gets the most cover...

This is an Earthquake Not a Wide Angle Shot

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A badly damaged house in Burwood. Parts of the house have moved in different directions, leaving walls and doors misaligned. The photographer comments, "Although this looks like an extreme wide angle shot it is actually a house tilted in every direction at the same time. The earthquake caused the ground to vibrate and compress so much that the sandy soil liquefied and caused the ground to collapse under this modern home".

Seismic Performance of Masonry Buildings in the Christchurch Earthquakes 2…

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Following the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011 a number of researchers were sent to Christchurch, New Zealand to document the damage to masonry buildings as part of “Project Masonry”. Coordinated by the Universities of Auckland and Adelaide, researchers came from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Italy, Portugal and the US. The types of masonry investigated were unreinforced clay brick masonry, unreinforced stone masonry, reinforced concrete masonry, residential masonry veneer and churches; masonry infill was not part of this study. This paper focuses on the progress of the unreinforced masonry (URM) component of Project Masonry. To date the research team has completed raw data collection on over 600 URM buildings in the Christchurch area. The results from this study will be extremely relevant to Australian cities since URM buildings in New Zealand are similar to those in Australia