31.07.12. Quake trashed house, Hereford St
31.07.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Hereford St view, Newstalk ZB would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
31.07.12. Les Mills gym ad board, Hereford St / Latimer Sq
31.07.12. DANGER DEMOLITION sign, steel mesh fence cordon, Latimer Sq
31.07.12. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel behind left, The Christchurch Club foreground would survive the quakes. Other bldgs would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
31.07.12. Latimer Sq / Worcester St, abandoned Clinic view, Newstalk ZB. Both bldgs would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame /Rauora Park
31.07.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Latimer Sq view, abandoned The Bicycle Thief pub & Newstalk ZB. Bldgs in the pic would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
31.07.12. Latimer Sq view, abandoned Morley House, quake demolition site, Newstalk ZB & Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel. Morley House, Newstalk ZB would be demolished for CERA's E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
Newstalk ZB implosion, CERA's Blueprint Stadium focus. Since the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, CERA had demolished 100s of ghost bldgs in Christchurch, red zone CBD. Demolishers' playround: W of Latimer Sq, gutted Newstalk ZB multi-storey, awaited implosion, surrounded by empty demolition sites, a steel mesh fence cordon & attached threat signs.
31.07.12. Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB, awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
Wed 30.07.12. CERA announced its Christchurch CBD Blueprint, which incl making Green Frame parkland out of the CBD area S of Avon River, between Madras St & Manchester St. (Future Rauora Park). For its Blueprint to work, NZ National govt / CERA would need to buy more than 840 properties, then rationalize CBD properties for its Blueprint, Green Frame & other projects, like Blueprint, Convention Centre / Te Pae, Stadium, Metro Sports Facility & turn Christchurch CBD into NZ National govt's / CERA's idea of a magnificent new CBD.
Post quakes, NZ govt would sell NZ National govt taken, E Frame land to developers like Fletcher to build apartments bordering the E Frame. Example: Newstalk ZB implosion site would become part of CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park. The area bordered by E Rauora Park & Latimer Sq between Worcester St & Gloucester St would become Worcester Terraces, small apartments with off-road garages. Externally, apartments around Rauroa Park would all look boringly similar, mostly tilt-slab boxes, opportunities missed by developers & architects to create interesting architecture surpassing minimal building code.
31.07.12. Manchester St view, Newstalk ZB awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
31.07.12. Demolition in progress next to Orion bldg which would survive the quakes, Manchester St
31.07.12. Manchester St view, Newstalk ZB awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
CERA's Blueprint, E Frame included 14 storey, Newstalk ZB (Radio Network House) slated for implosion, Sun 01.08.12, a first for NZ. CERA was taking so long demolishing quake trashed, CBD high rises. (Central Police, Hereford St would be imploded 31.05.15).
31.07.12. Post quake, new build, Westende House, Manchester St / Worcester St. Newstalk ZB behind. In July 2015 Westende House would be demolished by CERA / CCDU to widen Manchester St
31.07.12. Worcester St view, Newstalk ZB awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
31.07.12. DANGER DEMOLITION sign, Newstalk ZB steel mesh fence cordon, Worcester St
31.07.12. Worcester St view, Newstalk ZB awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
Newstalk ZB implosion by CERES firm cost $1 million. As implosion technology was readily available, why did CERA take so long?
31.07.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake demolition site, opp Newstalk ZB, Worcester St
31.07.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Worcester St view, Newstalk ZB awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
31.07.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Shipping containers protecting a Clinic, day before Newstalk ZB implosion, Worcester St. Bldgs in the pic would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
31.07.12. DANGER BLAST AREA sign, steel mesh fence cordon, Newstalk ZB implosion site, Worcester St
31.07.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Newstalk ZB, shipping containers, Clinic, Worcester St. Bldgs in the pic would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
31.07.12. Abandoned bldgs by Newstalk ZB, all awaiting demolition for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, Worcester St
31.07.12. Newstalk ZB, awaiting demolition for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, Worcester St
Sat 31.07.12. As I wanted before & after pics, I trekked around Newstalk ZB before steel mesh fence cordons were closed for the implosion. Over recent weeks, Newstalk ZB was already gutted by demolishers, just a 14 storey, concrete skeleton left, surrounded by CBD demolition sites.
Steel mesh fence cordon, threat signs:
DANGER
Demolition In Progress
Do Not Enter
DEPENDENT ON
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
THERE IS A RISK OF
DUST IN THIS AREA
PLEASE KEEP CLEAR
DANGER
DEMOLITION
KEEP OUT!
DANGER
EXPLOSIVES BLAST AREA
NO UNAUTHORISED ENTRY
CONTACT ORICA SHOT FIRER
TEMPORARY
CLOSED
LATIMER SQUARE WEST
WILL BE CLOSED
5.00 pm SATURDAY 4th AUGUST
11.00 pm SUNDAY 5 th AUGUST...
31.07.12. Hereford St / Madras St, Arrow House demolition site view, Newstalk ZB awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park. 2019. Arrow House demo site would become Liverpool Terraces
31.07.12. Tributes on steel mesh fence cordon. Madras St view, CTV bldg demolition site. 115 people died when the CTV bldg collapsed in the 22.02.11 quake. Behind, abandoned IR bldg, Les Mills gym right. Bldgs in the pic would survive the quakes. CTV demo site would become a memorial park
31.07.12. Madras St view, Newstalk ZB awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park. BNZ high rise beyond left would also be demolished, end of Regent St / Armagh St
Sun 01.08.12, 7.30 am. Dawn. I parked my car on Chester St East, near the 185 Empty Chairs memorial to 185 people killed by the 22.02.11 quake.
I trekked down Madras St, past quake demolition sites to Amicus House demolition site, Madras St / Armagh St, where I joined rubberneckers & other photographers for pics. A crowd gathered & stretched from Centennial Pool ghost, Armagh St, around the cnr & down Madras St to Latimer Sq. Crowd size, about 4 000.
01.08.12. Armagh St / Madras St dawn view, abandoned Your City Gym bldg left, Newstalk ZB right. Your City Gym & Newstalk ZB would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
Newstalk ZB implosion site on Worcester St, opp quake damaged The Christchurch Club & next to a Clinic ghost, steel mesh fence cordoned, DANGER signs on fences, midway across Latimer Sq length. Since the quakes, besides normal road signs & business signs, citizens had endured many new signs: Homemade signs by citizens on roadsides or fences; Formal Information signs by authorities like Council or CERA; Ad hoc signs to advertise businesses & relocations; Threat signs from authorites & their stooges, like Council, Civil Defence, NZDF, CERA, demolishers; Protester signs. Power poles, trees & steel mesh fence cordons were convenient places to hang signs. Ubiquitous Threat signs were the most tiresome. A fortune would've been spent on all the authoritarian signs we endured.
01.08.12. Armagh St / Madras St, dawn viewers awaiting Newstalk ZB implosion, by abandoned Your City Gym bldg, awaiting demolition for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
01.08.12. Armagh St view, Hi-Vis vested viewers atop Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel awaiting Newstalk ZB implosion
A latecomer couple, with tripod camera, pushed in front of me, trying to jostle me out of the way. In my loud, "deaf voice" I tapped the bloke's backpack & said, "Do you mind! I've positioned myself here for a good pic!" (Between two blokes on small ladders).
01.08.12. Armagh St view: Demolition in progress, PWC right, with dawn viewers atop, awaiting Newstalk ZB implosion. Abandoned Forsyth Barr left awaited restoration as Crowne Plaza Hotel. PWC demo site would become part of the new RC Cathedral precinct opp Victoria Sq
01.08.12. Armagh St / Madras St crowd awaiting Newstalk ZB implosion, middle. Abandoned Your City Gym bldg left & Newstalk ZB would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
The couple cringed, the bloke had bought a ladder to stand on, his blonde had plonked her back & tripod camera right in front of me! More photographers were positioned around me & on 2 parked utes.
01.08.12. Armagh St / Madras St viewers, seconds before Newstalk ZB implosion, 8 am, for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
8am. A little boy suffering cancer pressed the implosion button & 2 loud BANGS signified the implosion. (Leah later told me she heard it at Burnside). I got a million dollar pic while the bldg fell. A grey dust cloud then obscured the view. Seeing the destruction, the crowd was jubilant. A bloke next to me with fancier camera snapped a series of automatic pics as the bldg fell.
01.08.12. Newstalk ZB implosion, 8 am, seen Armagh St / Madras St. Bldg was imploded for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
01.08.12. Newstalk ZB implosion dust cloud, 8 am, seen Armagh St / Madras St
01.08.12. Armagh St / Madras St viewers enjoying Newstalk ZB implosion, 8 am
01.08.12. Armagh St / Madras St view, Newstalk ZB implosion dust cloud. Your City Gym bldg left would also be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Carriage Quarter apartments
01.08.12. Newstalk ZB rubble & dust settling, minutes after the implosion, Madras St / Gloucester St
While the dust settled, I trekked through the crowd in Madras St & Latimer Sq. A St John Ambulance stood at Madras St / Gloucester St crossing. A CERES ute stood inside Latimer Sq, steel mesh fence cordon. A sausage sizzle progressed by a ZM BLACK THUNDER SUV, below leafless, deciduous trees. Like me, the crowd still took pics, while cops in yellow, Hi-Vis vests patrolled outside the steel mesh fence cordon & Ryan Security in yellow, Hi-Vis vests patrolled inside the steel mesh fence cordon.
01.08.12. Crowd after Newstalk ZB implosion, Madras St / Gloucester St
01.08.12. CERES ute parked inside the steel mesh fence cordon, after Newstalk ZB implosion, Latimer Sq
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Photographers & crowd, after Newstalk ZB implosion, Latimer Sq
01.08.12. Newstalk ZB implosion. Ryan Security, inside Latimer Sq steel mesh fence cordon. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel, CBD red zone behind. Morley House mid left would also be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
01.08.12. Newstalk ZB implosion rubble seen from Latimer Sq
01.08.12. Latimer Hotel, post quake rebuild, Latimer Sq
01.08.12. Latimer Sq crowd after Newstalk ZB implosion
01.08.12. Latimer Sq, cops outside steel mesh fence cordon, after Newstalk ZB implosion
01.08.12. Latimer Sq, Ryan Security inside steel mesh cordon, after Newstalk ZB implosion
01.08.12. Latimer Sq, DANGER DEMOLITION sign on steel mesh fence cordon, after Newstalk ZB implosion
01.08.12. Latimer Sq, steel mesh fence cordoned, abandoned The Bicycle Thief pub & abandoned Morley House, after Newstalk ZB implosion right. The Bicycle Thief & Morley House would also be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
Madras St: I trekked S to look at CERA's Blueprint, 35 000 seater, roofed stadium site, bordered by E-W Hereford St & Tuam St & N-S Barbadoes St & Madras St on my left.
On my right, CERA's Blueprint, E Frame went down to St Asaph St by Christchurch Polytech. I wanted to see all the quake survivor bldgs & demolished properties, which NZ National govt / CERA would need to buy for its Blueprint stadium. The Blueprint stadium so close to the CBD & Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park was a bad idea, as it would be built on Christchurch Fault, opp CTV demolition site, where CTV had collapsed in the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, killing 115 people, hallowed ground to become a memorial park. Opp the CTV demo site loomed multi-storey, IRD ghost.
One just had to trek around quake trashed AMI stadium, closed since the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, to see how awful it was for businesses & residential housing around a looming stadium. Never mind that AMI stadium was in pre quake debt, due to V Base mismanagement. The debt was taken over by Council post quake.
As for CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae near Cathedral Sq, the old, concrete, Convention Centre, between Kilmore St & Peterborough St, was trashed by the 22.02.11 Killer Quake & demolished. (The old Convention Centre demo site would be vacant until 2021 when plans were announced to build apartments, offices & a hotel on site).
During 15 pre quake years, I'd only gone to one rugby match at the old, AMI Stadium, tickets too expensive. I'd been to one book sale at the old Convention Centre. Useless to me. NZ National govt / CERA wanted to rebuild bigger & better & ratepayers would have to carry costs decades hence.
Hereford St / Madras St / Latimer Sq junction: By Arrow House demolition site, traffic was gridlocked after the Newstalk ZB implosion. Across Madras St, I trekked past St Johns Anglican Church demolition site, where foundations were being laid for the Anglican Cardboard Cathedral.
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Madras St, gridlock traffic by CTV bldg demolition site, Les Mills gym behind, after Newstalk ZB implosion
S, beyond the Cardboard Cathedral site, the new stadium site extended to Tuam St, through demolition wastelands & closed businesses.
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post quakes, Christchurch Cardboard Cathedral site, on St Johns Anglican Church demolition site, Hereford St / Madras St. Abandoned IR bldg beyond would survive the quakes
Madras St / Cashel St: In CERA's Blueprint, E Frame, plastic flowers hung on CTV demolition site's steel mesh fence cordon. Beyond was Les Mills gym, recently reopened. In the Blueprint, E Frame, IRD ghost loomed opp CTV demolition site. Across the road, St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church demolition site awaited building of the Blueprint stadium.
Asterisks * on pic captions showed properties NZ National govt / CERA would need to buy for CERA's Blueprint stadium.
*01.08.12. Demolition site, incl Blackwells Holden, Madras St / Cashel St. CERA's proposed site for CERA's Blueprint, 35 000 seater, roofed stadium
*01.08.12. St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Church, demolition site, Cashel St / Madras St. CERA's proposed site for CERA's Blueprint stadium
01.08.12. Orange, plastic bollard cordon. Madras St view, old stable demolition site by Bedford Row, enabled new apartments. CERA's Blueprint, Green E Frame
Madras St / Bedford Row junction: I passed 3 ghosts which CERA would need to buy for CERA's Blueprint stadium. Across Madras St, the old, brick stable would be demolished, enabling new apartments, E Frame side.
*01.08.12. Madras St view, properties to be bought for CERA's Blueprint stadium, by Lichfield St crossing
Madras St / Lichfield St: A closed, red zone cordon, NZDF soldier checkpoint hut, Blueprint, E Frame side. 3 more ghosts, Blueprint stadium side, incl a part demolished bldg, NG boutique & CPR, which would survive the quakes, but years later would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint stadium.
01.08.12. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordon. Closed red zone, NZDF checkpoint, by CERA's Blueprint, E Frame, Madras St / Lichfield St crossing.
CERA's Blueprint S Frame began S from Lichfield St to St Asaph St then along St Asaph St, parallel to Tuam St, to the Health Precinct, starting at Montreal St to Hagley Ave / Oxford Tce.
*01.08.12. Quake trashed property to be bought by CERA for CERA's Blueprint stadium, Madras St / Lichfield St
*01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Properties to be bought by CERA for CERA's Blueprint stadium, Madras St
01.08.12. Pedestrians, quake & demolitions trashed pavement. Demolition site & red zone properties to be incl in CERA's Blueprint S Frame, Madras St
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Madras St / Tuam St, CERA's Blueprint S Frame left. *CERA's Blueprint stadium site right. Abandoned IR bldg beyond would survive the quakes
*01.08.12. Post quake, revamped NG boutique left, CPR right, to be bought by CERA for CERA's Blueprint stadium, Madras St
Ash St, E Frame side of Madras St: Lined by demolition sites going E to completely demolished Poplar Ln. The demolition sites included Edward Gibbon & apex car hire.
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Madras St, W view, red zone, Ash St to quake trashed / demolished Poplar Ln, in CERA's Blueprint S Frame
01.08.12. Madras St view, CERA's S Frame, green zone CPIT Fashion School left, red zone McKenzie Willis, metal braced, red zone Odeon Theatre middle, green zone Alice in Videoland (old PO) right. Wooden structure, middle, post quake EPIC, Innovation Centre construction site
01.08.12. CERA's Blueprint S Frame: Madras St / Tuam St view, green zone Alice in Videoland (old PO) middle right, surrounded by red zone desolation: McKenzie Willis, metal braced left, EPIC, Innovation Centre construction site, Odeon Theatre middle left. Foreground, Madras St demolition site going to quake trashed / demolished Poplar Ln
01.08.12. Tuam St / Madras St view, quake trashed bldg left, CPIT Music School right, latter in CERA's Blueprint S Frame.
Madras St / Tuam St: A concrete lined hole, filled with stagnant water, on a demolition site extending E across Turners & Growers site to Barbadoes St , CERA's Blueprint stadium wasteland.
01.08.12. Tuam St / Madras St view, red zone, CERA's Blueprint S Frame left, abandoned Holiday Inn, red zone beyond, awaited demolition *CERA's Blueprint stadium site right
01.08.12. Madras St / Tuam St crossing, N view, Madras St divide between CERA's Blueprint E & S Frame left, abandoned IR bldg left & *CERA's Blueprint stadium right. Perfectly good quake survivor bldgs, NG boutique & CPR right, were needed for CERA's Blueprint stadium
*01.08.12. Madras St / Tuam St view, Turners & Growers site to Barbadoes St, site for CERA's Blueprint stadium
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Tuam St / Madras St, SW view, CPIT Music School & McDonald's in CERA's Blueprint S Frame
01.08.12. Madras St / Tuam St view, CERA's Blueprint E & S Frame left & *Blueprint stadium site, right, with perfectly good, quake survivor bldgs
Behind NG boutique, I doubled back to Latimer Sq, across Turners & Growers site (CERA's Blueprint stadium site) taking in quake demolition sites & perfectly good bldgs, like Stellar & Element, which NZ National govt / CERA needed to buy for CERA's Blueprint stadium.
*01.08.12. Turners & Growers, CERA's Blueprint site for new stadium, view of back of NG boutique, Madras St. Abandoned IR bldg in CERA's Blueprint E Frame beyond would survive the quakes
*01.08.12. Turners & Growers, CERA's Blueprint stadium site view, Lichfield St / Madras St crossing, divide between CERA's Blueprint E Frame & S Frame. Beyond, red zone CBD: Abandoned Holiday Inn middle awaited demolition. Abandoned IR bldg right survived the quakes
01.08.12. Lichfield St, CERA's Blueprint stadium site, W view, divide between CERA's Blueprint S Frame left, E Frame right. Beyond, CBD red zone, abandoned Holiday Inn awaited demolition middle
*01.08.12. Lichfield St, E view, perfectly good quake survivor bldgs needed for CERA's Blueprint stadium site
Lichfield St: Demolition sites & Marketing Impact business, Sheppard & Rout Architects business, both perfectly good businesses needed for CERA Blueprint stadium site.
*01.08.12. Lichfield St. Perfectly good, quake survivor bldg needed for CERA's Blueprint stadium site
*01.08.12. Lichfield St, S view, Turners & Growers site, CERA's Blueprint stadium site
Lichfield St / Barbadoes St: Post quake, brand new Kirk / Roberts Engineering Consultants, on pre quakes Mackintosh Printers demolition site. Opp cnr, Turners & Growers site: Diggers exhibition & a crowd socializing in a white, plastic, tunnel marquee of the Christchurch Rebuild Support Centre. NZ National govt / CERA would demolish brand new Kirk / Roberts Engineering for CERA's Blueprint stadium. What a waste!
*01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Christchurch Rebuild Support Centre, Turners & Growers site, CERA's Blueprint stadium site, Lichfield St / Barbadoes St
*01.08.12. Brand new, post quake, Kirk Roberts, built on pre quake, Mackintosh Printers site, Lichfield St / Barbadoes St. Kirk Roberts was on CERA's Blueprint stadium site & would be demolished for the stadium. What a waste!
*01.08.12. Barbadoes St, W view, Lichfield St to CBD red zone. Most of Lichfield St in the pic was incl in CERA's Blueprint stadium site. Holiday Inn awaited demolition middle. Abandoned IRD bldg right would survive the quakes
Barbadoes St / Lichfield St: Japanese Import Parts business next to Kirk / Roberts Engineering, both would be bought & demolished by CERA for CERA's Blueprint stadium.
*01.08.12. Quake survivor business on CERA's Blueprint stadium site, Barbadoes St
Barbadoes St / Cashel St: Provincial Hotel demolition site & Cleaning Depot business, both bought by CERA for CERA's Blueprint stadium.
*01.08.12. Quake survivor business on CERA's Blueprint stadium site, Barbadoes St / Cashel St
Cashel St: Demolition sites; Tint-a-Car business; Mackay Leighs Demolition business & NZ Aids Association; business bldg for lease; Resene ColorShop business; Canterbury Mazda business, relocated; Blackwells Holden demolition site, opp St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian demolition site & CTV demolition site. Except for the latter, all those ghosts & demolition sites would be bought by CERA for CERA's Blueprint stadium. I viewed demolition site wastelands towards Hereford St, back to Newstalk ZB implosion site.
*01.08.12. Quake survivor business on CERA's Blueprint stadium site, Cashel St
*01.08.12. Cashel St W view, motor business demolition sites on CERA's Blueprint stadium site. CTV bldg demolition site beyond Madras St, then Les Mills gym bordered by red zone CBD bldgs. Abandoned IR bldg left, behind orange, plastic bollard cordon, would survive the quakes
01.08.12. Cashel St, NW view, demolition sites, incl CTV demolition site, to Torrens House, awaiting demolition middle, Latimer Sq right & red zone CBD behind. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel right was repaired
Barbadoes St / Hereford St: TelstraClear ghost would be bought by CERA for CERA's Blueprint stadium site.
*01.08.12. Abandoned TelstraClear on CERA's Blueprint stadium site, Barbadoes St / Hereford St
Hereford St: Residential & business demolition sites, incl demolished Hereford House, back to the Anglican Cardboard Cathedral site. Some ghost businesses would be bought by CERA for its Blueprint stadium. The risible thing about CERA's Blueprint stadium was that it isolated the Anglican St Johns demolition site where the Cardboard Cathedral would be built. CERA planners had no respect for the Anglican church, nor aesthetics of plonking a stadium next to & looming above an Anglican Cathedral.
The conflict between secular state planning & Anglican cathedral was evident in NZ National govt's / CERA's Blueprint contempt for Anglican heritage. At Cathedral Sq, CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae would tower over Christ Church Cathedral, like the Blueprint Central Library / Turanga, which would obscure quake survivor Novotel's views in Cathedral Sq. Never mind other quake survivor hotels looming over Christ Church Cathedral, like Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel, Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel & Millennium Hotel / Distinction Hotel.
*01.08.12. Abandoned business on CERA's Blueprint stadium site, Hereford St
01.08.12. Quake damaged housing, Hereford St
*01.08.12. Quake survivor businesses on CERA's Blueprint stadium site, Hereford St
01.08.12. Hereford St view, abandoned IR bldg, Cashel St. IR bldg would survive the quakes
01.08.12. Hereford House demolition site, Hereford St
01.08.12. Shipping containers, steel mesh fence cordon. Beaufort House demolition site, Hereford St. Abandoned Park Tower On Latimer behind. Beaufort House would be replaced by flats
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Hereford St view across Anglican Cardboard Cathedral, construction site (St Johns demolition site) to abandoned IRD bldg, which would survive the quakes
01.08.12. Quake damaged, steel mesh fence cordoned house, Latimer Sq. The house would survive the quakes
01.08.12. Quake damaged, steel mesh fence cordoned, Park Tower On Latimer, which would survive the quakes & be repaired, 2019
01.08.12. Post quake, Latimer Hotel rebuild, Latimer Sq. New Latimer Hotel would be renamed Rydges Hotel
There were many demolition sites, residential & commercial sites, which NZ National govt / CERA would buy for its Blueprint stadium between Madras St & Barbadoes St.
And that was just properties CERA needed to buy for its Blueprint stadium. Never mind 100s of properties CERA would need to buy for its Blueprint E & S Frames & morph them into parkland & green alleys. (At that stage, CERA hadn't evolved a plan for plonking housing or flats on CERA's Blueprint Frame lands).
Why didn't rugby authorities buy & build their own new stadium? After all, post quakes NZ National govt had already revamped a temporary stadium, which had only part-filled for rugby matches. CERA's Blueprint for a 35 000 seater, roofed stadium, would saddle ratepayers with stadium costs for decades.
As for mayor Parker, there wasn't a squeak of protest about CERA's expensive white elephants. Not a squeak from town clerk Marryatt either.
01.08.12. Latimer Sq view, Newstalk ZB implosion rubble. Morley House ghost left awaited demo for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel undergoing repairs middle. Abandoned Forsyth Barr right, awaited restoration as Crowne Plaza Hotel
01.08.12. Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB implosion rubble & implosion dust. Red zone CBD beyond
01.08.12. Newstalk ZB implosion dust view, abandoned, Your City Gym bldg, awaited demolition, Gloucester St / Madras St, for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Carriage Quarter apartments
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB implosion rubble & dust. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel beyond
01.08.12. Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB implosion rubble & dust. Red zone CBD beyond
01.08.12. Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB implosion dust by abandoned Clinic, awaiting demolition for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park. Holiday Inn awaited demolition in red zone right
Latimer Sq / Gloucester St: Newstalk ZB implosion site: About an hour after the implosion, the crowd had dispersed & the steel mesh fence cordon was open. The demolition site by Morley House ghost was covered in grey dust. A biker couple in leathers hugged each other by their parked motor bikes. Morley House would also be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park.
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake demolition site & abandoned, Your City Gym bldg, awaiting demolition, Gloucester St / Madras St, for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
01.08.12. Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB implosion site & dust. Red zone CBD beyond
01.08.12. Gloucester St view, abandoned, Morley House, awaiting demolition, by Newstalk ZB implosion site. The area would be part of CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
01.08.12. Gloucester St view, trailer by Newstalk ZB implosion site. Red zone CBD beyond
Between Gloucester St & Worcester St: I trekked up to the rubble heap, NEWSTALK ZB sign undulating on top of the rubble, surrounded by an inner, steel mesh fence cordon. Grey dust covered nearby demolition sites, a thick, gritty layer at the back of the Clinic ghost. A Ryan Security man in yellow, Hi-Vis vest talked to a woman. Another Ryan Security man directed vehicles onto a Gloucester St demolition site next to implosion rubble.
01.08.12. Shipping container, steel mesh fence cordon. Newstalk ZB implosion site, Gloucester St
01.08.12. City Care truck spraying water on Newstalk ZB implosion dust, Gloucester St
01.08.12. Ryan Security directing traffic onto Newstalk ZB implosion site, Gloucester St. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel beyond
01.08.12. DANGER DEMOLITION KEEP OUT! Steel mesh fence cordon. Newstalk ZB implosion site left would be part of CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park. Gloucester St, W view, Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel middle. Parking garage right, awaited demolition for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
01.08.12. DANGER DEMOLITION KEEP OUT! Steel mesh fence cordon. Newstalk ZB implosion site, Gloucester St
01.08.12. City Care truck spraying water on Newstalk ZB implosion dust, Gloucester St. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel beyond
City Care water tankers sprayed water on dusty Gloucester St, Manchester St, Worcester St & by Latimer Sq. A dusty car was parked Gloucester St / Manchester St. Camera tripods stood on the road at the back. North westwards, PWC high rise was a demolition in progress. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel loomed above the lot. After Newstalk ZB implosion, Pacific Tower was the tallest bldg in quake town.
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Orange digger. Newstalk ZB implosion site, Gloucester St
01.08.12. City Care truck spraying water on Newstalk ZB implosion dust, Gloucester St. Red zone CBD beyond
01.08.12. Media camera tripods, car polluted by Newstalk ZB implosion dust, Gloucester St / Manchester St
01.08.12. Gloucester St / Manchester St, NW view, red zone CBD & orange, Hi-Vis vested men standing on Newstalk ZB implosion dust. Abandoned Youth Hostel middle behind would survive the quakes. PWC demolition in progress behind left. BNZ awaited demolition behind right. Both PWC & BNZ demo sites would enable the new RC Cathedral precinct
01.08.12. Gloucester St / Manchester St, SE view, Newstalk ZB implosion site & dust
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Manchester St view, Newstalk ZB implosion site
01.08.12. Manchester St view, Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel
Manchester St / Worcester St: Brand new, Westende House, built on the 04.09.10 Darfield Quake, ground zero site, was water-blasted by a team of workmen using a cherry picker & high pressure hoses. But brand new, Westende House was in CERA's Blueprint E Frame. CERA would demolish Westende House, July 2015, for wider Manchester St pavements, bus lanes & bus stops. By 2019 the new Manchester St would have constipated traffic, many traffic lights & 30km/h speed limit.
01.08.12. Brand new, post quake, Westende House, Manchester St / Worcester St. Newstalk ZB implosion site beyond. July 2015 Westende House would be demolished by CERA / CCDU to widen Manchester St
01.08.12. Workmen water-blasting brand new, post quake, Westende House, after Newstalk ZB implosion, Worcester St. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel beyond. July 2015 CERA / CCDU would demolish Westende House to widen Manchester St
Worcester St: By the steel mesh fence cordon, cyclists viewed the implosion rubble heap. Blue detonator cord, behind shipping containers protecting the ghost Clinic, snaked under the steel mesh fence cordon to the implosion site. I was the only observer wearing a dust mask. I didn't stay long, as I feared silicon dust from crushed concrete.
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Newstalk ZB implosion site & dust, Worcester St. Abandoned, Your City Gym bldg beyond, also awaited demolition for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Carriage Quarter apartments
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon & implosion dust. Shipping containers protected abandoned Clinic right, against Newstalk ZB implosion left, Worcester St. The Clinic would also be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
01.08.12. Cyclist by steel mesh fence cordoned, Newstalk ZB implosion site & dust, Worcester St
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon & implosion dust. Newstalk ZB implosion site right, Worcester St. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel left, bordered by red zone, CBD bldgs beyond. PWC demolition in progress right for the new RC Cathedral precinct opp Victoria Sq
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Newstalk ZB implosion site & implosion dust, Worcester St. Red zone, PWC, demolition in progress left, for the new RC Cathedral precinct opp Victoria Sq
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Newstalk ZB implosion site, demolition cord on abandoned Clinic pavement, protected by shipping containers. Implosion dust on Worcester St. Red zone CBD bldgs beyond
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Worcester St, abandoned Clinic, shipping container view, Newstalk ZB implosion site & implosion dust. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel beyond
01.08.12. Abandoned Clinic awaited demolition, Worcester St, for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
01.08.12. Steel mesh fence cordoned, abandoned, Frenz Backpackers, awaited demolition, Worcester St / Latimer Sq, for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
A red zone CBD Council map hung on the steel mesh fence cordon by The Bicycle Thief pub ghost. Map: WELCOME TO CHRISTCHURCH. The site would becme part of Worcester Terraces
01.08.12. Abandoned, The Bicycle Thief pub, awaited demolition, Worcester St / Latimer Sq, for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
01.08.12. WELCOME TO CHRISTCHURCH sign, steel mesh fence cordon, Latimer Sq / Worcester St
01.08.12. Abandoned, The Bicycle Thief pub, awaited demolition, Latimer Sq, for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Worcester Terraces
01.08.12. Abandoned Morley House awaited demolition, by Newstalk ZB implosion site, Latimer Sq, for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park. Red zone CBD beyond right: PWC, BNZ & carpark garage would all be demolished
01.08.12. Latimer Sq view, Newstalk ZB implosion site. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel beyond. Forsyth Barr in red zone CBD right, awaited restoration as Crowne Plaza Hotel
01.08.12. Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB implosion site. Red zone CBD beyond left. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel right
01.08.12. Dust mask, Madras St / Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB implosion site. Red zone CBD beyond
01.08.12. Armagh St / Madras St view, Newstalk ZB implosion site. Abandoned Holiday Inn, red zone CBD, awaited demolition. Abandoned Your City Gym bldg left would be demolished for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park, incl Carriage Quarter apartments
Since the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, Newstalk ZB implosion was just one of many 100s of demolitions in the red zone, ghost CBD. Resurrections were NZ National govt / CERA dependent, as NZ National govt / CERA would hold Christchurch CBD hostage behind CERA's steel mesh fence cordons & NZDF soldier checkpoints for 28 months. Citizens banned.
*Trekked Hereford St, Latimer Sq, Worcester St, Gloucester St, Manchester St, Madras St, Tuam St, Lichfield St, Barbadoes St, Cashel St. 291 images.
Coda:
Tues 26.03.13. The Press ad:
"CERA...
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR
THE STADIUM
Notice is hereby given, under section 54 of the Canterbury Earthquake
Recovery Act 2011, that the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery
proposes to take the land described in the Schedule to this notice...
The reasons why the Minister for Earthquake Recovery
considers it necessary to take the land are as follows:
1. The Stadium is an integral part of the Christchurch Central Recovery
Plan;
2. The land described in the Schedule to this notice has been identified
as the most appropriate for the stadium; and
3. The Stadium cannot be properly constructed and operated without all
interests in the land being acquired.
The owners of the land and those persons with a registered interest in it
have been served with notice of the Minister's intention to take their land...
Warwick Albert Isaacs
Director Christchurch Central Development Unit
(for Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery)..."
Ah-Ha! Christchurch CBD land-grab by NZ National govt / CERA done by Brownlee, Ilam electorate MP & CCDU appointee Isaacs from Timaru. The land-grab would be paid by NZ taxpayers, but Isaacs & Brownlee to date still hadn't said who would pay for the Blueprint stadium, replacing the liquefactioned AMI stadium. (Demolished 2019).
Never mind that it would take 3 years before AMI Stadium insurance payout evolved, as part of a bulk payment for quake damaged Council assets
The Forsyth Barr stadium recently build in Dunedin was massively expensive for Dunedin ratepayers.
A top down, forcing of a rugby stadium on Christchurch citizens to be built on Christchurch Fault, on land next to to Christchurch Anglican Cardboard Cathedral, Latimer Sq & CERA's Blueprint E Frame. So far, there were no offers to build, or pay for the stadium by Canterbury rugger buggers.
The Press, another CERA ad:
"NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR
THE JUSTICE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES
PRECINCT..."
For CERA's Blueprint Justice & Emergency Services Precinct, NZ National govt / CERA would use taxpayers' money to land-grab a CBD block, bordered by Lichfield St, Tuam St, Durham St Sth.
For its Blueprint Convention Centre, NZ National govt / CERA would use taxpayers' money to land-grab another huge CBD block, bordered by Gloucester St, Armagh St, Oxford Tce & Colombo St, between Victoria Sq & Cathedral Sq. Due to quakes, prime land nabbed by NZ National govt / CERA.
Although a temporary stadium was already revamped by Brownlee's rugger minions post 22.02.11 Killer Quake, citizens weren't consulted for the need, viability, or positioning of the Blueprint, 35 000 seater, roofed stadium between Barbadoes St & Madras St.
What were Isaacs & his Blueprint minions thinking plonking a 35 000 seater, rugby stadium near Anglican Church property (St Johns / Cardboard Cathedral) opp CTV demolition site, where 115 people died in the 22.02.11 Killer Quake?
2021. Stadium construction hadn't even started. Plans had changed for a 25 000 seater stadium. Restored NG Building, a heritage bldg, on the stadium site, Madras St: 10 years post quakes, NG Building owners' court cases vs NZ govt's land-grab for CERA's Blueprint stadium would farcically enable NG Building to relocate to the demo site next to the Anglican Cardboard Cathedral! Meanwhile a vast area of vacant demo sites between Madras St & Barbadoes St, awaiting stadium construction, had road bits ploughed up, like sections of Cashel St & Lichfield St incl in the stadium site. 2022. NG Building would be demolished. The empty stadium site would be surrounded by a wire fence cordon, then a solid steel fence before work began on stadium construction, 2022-2023...
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
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