Cranmer Centre Demolition, Christchurch-CBD

Cranmer Centre focus. 14.04.11. National State-of-Emergency. Post 22 February 2011, M6.3 quake, Christchurch CD had an expanding list of demolished buildings & buildings needing demolitions, hundreds of buildings.



14.04.11. 22 February 2011 quake, DANGER DEMOLITION IN PROGRESS NO ENTRY threat-sign, Cranmer Centre, steel-mesh-fence-cordon, Montreal St, zone 1, National state-of-emergency

Post 22 February 2011 quake, whenever I trekked Christchurch I saw new demolition-sites & old buildings being demolished. CD used demolition-edcavators, demolition-diggers, demolition-cranes & demolition front-end-loaders, clawed machines to rip buildings apart. CD lackeys, NZDF-soldiers & cops kept owners & public away from buildings being demolished behind steel-mesh-fence-cordons. The National State-of-Emergency stopped owners & public from stopping demolitions. For public safety of course.


14.04.11. Two orange diggers demolishing Cranmer centre. Feb 22 quake, Montreal St / Armagh St, zone 1, national state of emergency

14 April 2011.Montreal St: I trekked from zone 4 into zone 1 & snapped two orange-diggers demolishing old, brick Cranmer Centre ruin, damaged by the 4 September 2010 quake, ruined by the 22 February 2011 quake. A digger produced clouds of dust, making a rubble-heap. Fearing asbestos-dust, brick-dust & cement-dust, I didn't stay long.

Why didn't demolishers wet rubble to stop dust? Never mind HAZARD to demolition-operators & locals. Regarding demolition-dust, I would often see demolishers' slackness for public-safety & worker health & safety.


14.04.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, yellow crane demolition of Cranmer Centre, Armagh St / Montreal St, zone 1, national state of emergency


14.04.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, yellow crane, Cranmer Centre facade, Armagh St, would be demolished after Montreal St side was demolished, zone 1, national state of emergency


14.04.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, demolition of Cranmer Centre, Montreal St facade, zone 1, national state of emergency










Cranmer Centre steel-mesh-fence-cordon threat-signs:

    DANGER
DEMOLITION
IN PROGRESS
   NO ENTRY

  QUAKE
 REPAIRS
KEEP OUT















Later, Armagh St section of Cranmer Centre would be demolished too. The demolition-site would become a carpark for a Christ Church Cathedral office.

*Trekked Montreal St. 28 snaps.

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.