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- The Princess Cinema in New Brighton
- dc.description
- The brick facade has fallen from the former Princess Cinema in New Brighton, exposing the rooms inside, and crushing a car parked below. The photographer comments, "The front of the old Princess Cinema in New Brighton after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 February. Under the pile of bricks is a luckily unoccupied blue car. The word CLEAR on the broken facade is to show that there is no one in the car. This building has now been knocked down as it was so dangerous".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 2:28am 24th February 2011
- Tags
- 22 February 2011, New Brighton, Beresford Street, Princess Cinema, Bargain House, Oram Avenue, brick, building, collapsed, damage, broken
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- A Broken Window in a Broken City
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- A digitally manipulated image of a broken window on Spicer House. The photographer comments, "One of the office blocks in Christchurch City, New Zealand. As the window has not been fixed I am presuming that this building will be slowly demolished at a later date".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 11:08pm 1st February 2012
- Tags
- red stickered, Fitzgearald Avenue, damaged, broken, letterbox, overgrown, wall
- dc.title
- Earthquake Contortions
- dc.description
- The badly twisted Medway Street footbridge. The photographer comments, "The September 4th 2010 earthquake in Christchurch was so violent that the banks of the Avon River moved towards each other. This footbridge being metal had to twist sideways to release the pressure of being pushed from both river banks. It looked like it had been wrung out like a wet towel".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 10:38am 16th October 2012
- Tags
- twisted, Medway Street Bridge, bridge, metal, Avon River, 4 September 2010, 22 February 2011, broken, damaged, bent
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- Modern Art or Old Fashioned Disaster
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- Boarded-up broken windows on the old Christchurch City Council building in Tuam Street. The photographer comments, "What can happen to a building when the land is no longer solid as a rock".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 11:58pm 7th April 2012
- Tags
- 22 February 2011, damaged, broken, quake art, art, CBD, Council, derelict, boarded up
- dc.title
- The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side
- dc.description
- A digitally manipulated photograph looking through a broken window into a darkened room. Through windows opposite, an overgrown garden can be seen. The photographer comments, "This is a restaurant that was closed down and without any help the garden at the back has flourished".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 12:06am 4th August 2012
- Tags
- broken, smashed, window, glass, overgrown, trees
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- Like Shattered Guttering
- dc.description
- Dried liquefaction silt in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "The liquefaction after the 23 December earthquake in Christchurch started to dry out and the thicker deposits started to curl up like broken drain pipe".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 1:55am 28th December 2011
- Tags
- liquefaction, drying, dried, curly, broken, 23 December 2011, Parklands, Bower Avenue, silt, sand, curl, curling, cracking, cracked, quake art, art
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- Cracked
- dc.description
- A large crack in the concrete floor slab of a building in Barbadoes Street. The photographer comments, "This is a picture of the cracked concrete floor in a shop in the Christchurch CBD. I have a similar crack in my home, but I have not lifted the carpet to look".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 10:46pm 19th November 2011
- Tags
- crack, cracked, damage, CBD, 22 February 2011, broken, carpet, concrete, pad, slab, floor, lifted, quake art
- dc.title
- TJ's Kazbah, New Brighton After the Christchurch Earthquake
- dc.description
- Damage to TJ's Kazbah in New Brighton. The east and north walls and part of the upper floor have collapsed, tipping rubble and the contents of the rooms out onto the street. The photographer comments, "The occupants of the business and rooms all managed to escape alive. A digger was used to make the building safe and then used to sift through the rubble for any surviving belongings. It was a very emotional time for the ex-occupants".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 7:45am 23rd February 2011
- Tags
- 22 February 2011, New Brighton, North New Brighton, 1 Bowhill Road, TJs Kazbah, Marine Parade, cross section, brick, building, collapsed, fallen down, broken, damage
- dc.title
- Back of the Old Princess Cinema in New Brighton (2)
- dc.description
- Detail of damage to the former Princess Cinema in New Brighton. Bricks have fallen from the wall, exposing the interior. The photographer comments, "This is the back of the old Princess Cinema in New Brighton after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 February. The bricks seem to be just on the edge of falling. This building has now been knocked down as it was so dangerous".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 2:32am 24th February 2011
- Tags
- 22 February 2011, New Brighton, Beresford Street, Princess Cinema, Bargain House, collapse, collapsed, brick, bricks, broken, shaken, falling, hanging, building, Oram Avenue
- dc.title
- At Rainbow's End
- dc.description
- A digitally manipulated image of building rubble.
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 11:17pm 23rd November 2012
- Tags
- demolition, metal, tubing, supports, wire, rebar, reinforcing, bar, destruction, bent, warped, broken, damage, collapsed
- dc.title
- Living on the Edge
- dc.description
- A damaged house perched on the edge of the cliffs above Sumner. The photographer comments, "This house has slowly gone over the edge since the big earthquake in Christchurch in February 2011. Subsequent earthquakes has caused the rock face to crumble more and more".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 12:28am 8th July 2012
- Tags
- Kinsey Terrace, Clifton, Redcliffs, abandoned, Red Zone, 22 February 2011, crumbling, cliff, cliff face, rock face, damage, wreckage, fallen, broken, smashed
- dc.title
- Remembering Why it is Called the Red Zone
- dc.description
- A digitally manipulated image of a damaged building. The photographer comments, "Part of Christchurch City is out of bounds for the public and is called the red zone".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 12:27am 9th May 2011
- Tags
- Red Zone, bricks, collapsed, fallen, broken, damaged, quake art, art
- dc.title
- The Skeletal Fish
- dc.description
- Dried liquefaction in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "This shape formed as the liquefaction after the 23 December earthquake in Christchurch started to dry out".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 2:06am 28th December 2011
- Tags
- liquefaction, drying, dried, broken, 23 December 2011, silt, sand, cracking, cracked, split, quake art, art
- dc.title
- Titanic 3D
- dc.description
- The roof of this collapsed building on Atlas Lane has fallen almost intact on top of the rubble. The photographer comments, "Whenever I go past this place it reminds me of a sinking ship".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 12:08am 8th April 2012
- Tags
- 22 February 2011, damaged, broken, CBD, collapsed, wall, roof, chimney, metal, iron, fence, quake art
- dc.title
- Julia Holden's 2013 Photographs 408
- dc.description
- A photograph looking through a closed shop window on Cashel Street. There is still food in the cabinets, and a pile of smashed plates on the floor.
- Creator(s)
- Julia Holden
- Date
- 1:36am 1st July 2013
- Tags
- Cashel Street, food, broken
- dc.title
- Kissed By an Earthquake
- dc.description
- A digitally manipulated photograph of broken windows on Shadbolt House. The photographer comments, "This was close to the start of the demolition of the earthquake damaged Shadbolt House building in the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand. In the bright sun the glass reflected the blue sky, but the broken windows only reflected the blackness of the interior of the empty broken building".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 10:54pm 6th October 2012
- Tags
- damaged, broken, smashed, windows, Lyttleton, Banks Peninsula, glass, Shadbolt House, Port Authority, Peter Beaven
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- Bob Brown's Hi-Fi
- dc.description
- Broken windows on the Orion building on Manchester Street. The photographer comments, "Bob Brown's Hi-Fi was damaged, as you can see, in the Christchurch earthquake on the 22 February 2011. At lot of buildings in the area have been demolished, but this art deco style structure might have not have been put on the demolition list yet".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 10:42pm 23rd June 2012
- Tags
- Bob Brown's Hi-Fi, Manchester Street, CBD, art deco, windows, mirrored, glass, smashed, broken, blinds, flag pole, damaged, 22 February 2011, Kilmore Street
- dc.title
- What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?
- dc.description
- Broken stained glass in a window of the ChristChurch Cathedral. The photographer comments, "I only managed to get one picture of the badly earthquake damaged Christchurch Cathedral and I did not want to get the buttresses holding it up like some Medieval siege engine, so I thought this one was perfect. Looking through the window notice that the adjacent wall has gone and the blue windows belong to an office block across the road".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 12:01am 4th December 2011
- Tags
- CBD, 22 February 2011, broken, damage, church, cathedral, window, wire, netting, hole, stained glass, quake art
- dc.title
- The Times They Are A-Changing
- dc.description
- A wall clock with its glass broken. The photographer comments, "A very appropriate title as the numbers are not sequential and the clock has a very odd shape".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 7:04am 10th October 2012
- Tags
- clock, smashed, broken, Science Alive, railway station, Moorhouse Avenue
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- This was the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
- dc.description
- A digitally manipulated image of the dome of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 9:40am 8th October 2011
- Tags
- 22 February 2011, Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, cathedral, damage, Barbadoes Street, CBD, Catholic, church, broken, quake art, art