A photograph of an excavator in front of a partially-demolished building on Cashel Street.
A photograph of excavators demolishing a block of apartments on Marriner Street in Sumner.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Art Gallery Apartments Building on Gloucester Street.
A photograph of two excavators clearing the rubble from in front of a partially-demolished building on Cashel Street.
A photograph of an excavators clearing the rubble from in front of a partially-demolished building on Cashel Street.
A photograph of an excavator in front of the partially-demolished Odeon Theatre, taken from St Asaph Street.
A photograph of an excavator.
A video of an excavator demolishing the clock tower of the former railway station on Moorhouse Avenue.
A photograph of an excavator on an empty building site between Cashel Street and Hereford Street. Two cranes can be seen in the distance.
A photograph of the site of a demolished building on Gloucester Street near Latimer Square. An excavator on the site is working to clear the rubble.
A photograph of an excavator on an empty building site between Cashel Street and Hereford Street. Two cranes can be seen in the distance.
A digitally manipulated image of an excavator. The photographer comments, "This is a huge excavator in the Christchurch CBD. It is being used to clear away the enormous amount of rubble from the buildings being demolished. It seems that nearly all the big machinery from all other the world has been needed in the clean up of the earthquake damaged buildings and utilities".
A photograph of an excavator at rest.
A photograph of a truck on the site of the partially-demolished Art Gallery Apartments Building on Gloucester Street. In the background, an excavator is continuing to demolish the building.
A photograph of Elizabeth Ackermann standing in front of a partially-demolished building on Cashel Street. In the background, two excavators are working to remove the rubble from the site.
A photograph of the site of a demolished building on the south-west corner of Durham and Armagh Streets. In the background, two excavators are clearing rubble from the site.
A photograph of Elizabeth Ackermann standing in front of a partially-demolished building on Cashel Street. In the background, two excavators are working to remove the rubble from the site.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing a building.
A photograph of the former TV3 building taken from Colombo Street, across the sites of several demolished buildings. In front of the building, two excavators are clearing away the rubble from a demolished building.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Art Gallery Apartments Building on Gloucester Street. To the left, a truck has been parked on the site in order to collect the rubble.
A photograph of an excavator slowly deconstructing a building.
A photograph of an excavator slowly deconstructing a building.
A photograph of the site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the corner of Kilmore and Durham Streets. The hotel has been demolished, leaving large piles of rubble which two excavators are working to clear.
A video of an excavator demolishing a red-zoned property on Seabreeze Close in Bexley. The house is the first to be demolished in the Bexley residential red zone.
A photograph of Kay Rosen's mural 'Here are the people and there is the steeple'.
A photograph of the site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel taken from Radio New Zealand House on Durham Street. The hotel has been demolished, leaving large piles of rubble which an excavator is working to clear.
A video of excavators demolishing the former railway station on Moorhouse Avenue. The building was only moderately damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake, but repair work was deemed too costly for the co-owner, Science Alive!.
An excavator deconstructing a building near Blackwells Holden on Madras Street.
A photograph of an excavator amongst building debris near Lichfield Street.
A photograph of excavators at work on a central Christchurch site.