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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: I'll Kiss It Better
dc.description: 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".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 12:17am 24th June 2012
Tags: brick, CBD, damage, destruction, wall, plants, flowers, crack, cover, mend, graffiti

dc.title: The Earthquake Worms
dc.description: A digitally manipulated photograph of twisted reinforcing rods amongst the rubble from the demolition of QEII. The photographer comments, "These rarely seen worms live in the pressurised earth under the foundations of buildings. They need a damp soil and be under at least 100 pounds of pressure per square inch. After the destructive force of an earthquake they swiftly rise to the surface through gaps in the rubble. Unfortunately they quickly die and then crystallise as hard as iron in the dry low pressure air".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 10:47pm 28th October 2012
Tags: iron, reinforcement, reinforcing bars, rods, rubble, concrete, broken, rebar, reinforced steel, destruction, demolition, deconstruction

dc.title: The Not So Grand Entrance to the Grand Plaza in Christchurch
dc.description: A view through a gap in the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza Hotel to the Forsyth Barr building.
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 10:42pm 7th April 2012
Tags: Kilmore Street, Durham Street, metal, destruction, demolition, Crowne Plaza, concrete, office block, silhouette, broken, Red Zone, damaged, CBD, hotel, quake art, art

dc.title: It Must Have Anglo-Saxon Heritage
dc.description: A building on St Asaph Street has been demolished, exposing the interior structure of the adjoining building. The photographer comments, "The building that this one was part of has been demolished and the join looks very much like the exterior walls of an Anglo-Saxon house. It has been exposed due to the demolition of damaged buildings after the Christchurch earthquake".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 11:48pm 23rd June 2012
Tags: demolish, knocked down, plaster board, gib, battens, walls, 22 February 2011, deconstruction, damage, destruction, house, building, plywood, windows, CBD, High Street, St Asaph Street

dc.title: Almost Like London During the War
dc.description: A digitally manipulated image of damaged Music Centre. The photographer comments, "The destruction caused by the demolition of the heritage buildings damaged in the Christchurch earthquakes looks similar to the scenes in London during the second world war. The building was the Catholic Cathedral College, Christchurch. It was an integrated Catholic co-educational secondary school. It was founded in 1987, but its origins go back more than a 100 years earlier. The college was an amalgamation of two schools: Sacred Heart College for girls, and Xavier College for boys".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 7:41am 16th December 2011
Tags: destruction, 22 February 2011, Catholic Cathedral College, Sacred Heart College, Xavier College, Barbadoes Street, Ferry Road, devastation, broken, demolish, unsafe, quake art

dc.title: Double Glazing Can Keep More Than the Warmth In
dc.description: Building rubble from a partially-demolished building is piled behind and partly against a large display window.
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 10:49pm 7th April 2012
Tags: Kilmore Street, Durham Street, metal, destruction, demolition, Crowne Plaza, concrete, office block, silhouette, broken, Red Zone, damaged, CBD, hotel, quake art, art

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