The 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes dramatically changed Christchurch s landscape, with many heritage buildings lost.
Heritage advocates claim many of Christchurch s historic buildings were hastily bowled after the deadly February 2011 earthquake, while city leaders say safety was their priority. STEVEN WALTON reports. Carolyn Fletcher loved living in the Gothic Revival-style Cranmer Courts building. “As a little girl I looked at the place and said to my parents that would make a lovely place to live’. I just thought it was a gorgeous building,” she says.
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Cranmer Courts residents Carolyn Fletcher, left, and Phylippa Gough in front of the heritage building in 2012, before it demolished.
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Post-quake Christchurch has come a long way in 10 years, but is, in part, a confusion of contrasts and contradictions. Have our expectations been too high? David Williams reports
Ann Brower doesn’t mind being in central Christchurch, which is surprising, really.
On February 22, 2011, the bus she was riding along Colombo St was crushed by building debris – the parapet and façade of an unreinforced masonry building – after a 6.3 magnitude quake hit, killing 185 people. Twelve people died beside her.
In Brower’s remarkable first-person piece from 2017, the University of Canterbury Associate Professor writes: “I’m the only one left, the lucky 13th.”
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