The citizens of Christchurch have experienced tens of thousands of earthquakes over the past year, with three major, damaging events, as follows: M7.1 Darfield earthquake on 09/03/2010, an M6.2 event on 02/21/2011, and an M6.0 event 06/13/2011 (UTC). There has been terrible devastation of downtown businesses, apartments, and historic buildings. Demolition is underway over a large sector of the central city that is termed the Red Zone. Usually busy downtown thoroughfares (the "one way system") have only a solitary car passing every now and then. The center city is fenced off, and there are cranes and bulldozers everywhere. Around the perimeter of the red zone, though, there are the beginnings of renewal... and seriously THE most art-y and uptown use of shipping containers ever seen!
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| The Arts Centre |
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| View of Christchurch Cathedral |
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| Lorry headed out of Red Zone, driving along Armagh Street toward Windsor Hotel... |
BUT AROUND THE PERIMETER, IT IS CHRISTCHURCH RISING!!
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| Steadfast sign for Windsor Hotel, still standing... and a new building under construction on the former site of the Windsor Annex. |
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| This building is being fitted with a shining, burnished, copper roof!! |
The Cashel Mall has a new look -- this is going to set off a circum-Pacific container architecture craze !
The Cashel Mall has a new look -- this is going to set off a circum-Pacific container architecture craze !
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