New transport centre in Christchurch
Christchurch rebuild still in progress.
Hope these steel frameworks are more earthquake proof.
Old facades being saved with new structures being built behind.
Quake City museum. Too expensive for my liking.
More steel work.
The historic trams back up and running.
Christchurch’s Arch of Remembrance now fully restored.
Never seen so many construction workers in such a small area before.
Cathedral Square rising from the ruins. The challice (ice cream cone) Millennium statue.
The Cathedral still languishing in the weeds and steel work.
Demolition still in progress 6 years down the track.
One white chair for every person that died in that horrendous earthquake.
Christchurch’s new cardboard Cathedral.
The rafters are cardboard tubes constructed locally which are approximately 300mm diameter and 25mm thick. There are timber beams up through the centre of the tubes. The walls are used shipping containers suitably modified. The roof being made of laminated interlocking panels that can be replaced if necessary. With a life expectancy of 50 years.
Demolition in progress. This machine was chomping through RSJ beams as if they were cardboard.
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