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 February 2011 Quake, CERA demolished hundreds of ruins in Christchurch's red-zone-CBD. In the demolishers' playround west of Latimer Sq, gutted Newstalk ZB multi-storey awaited implosion, surrounded by demolition- sites, steel-mesh-fence-cordons & attached threat-signs.
31.07.12. Gloucester St view, Newstalk ZB, awaiting implosion for CERA's Blueprint E Frame / Rauora Park
Wednesday 30.07.12. CERA announced its Christchurch CBD Blueprint which included making Green Frame parkland from the CBD south of Avon River between Madras St & Manchester St. (Future Rauora Park). For its Blueprint to work CERA would need to buy more than 840 properties then rationalize CBD properties for its Blueprint Green Frame & other projects, like the Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae, the Stadium & the Metro Sports Facility.
Post-quakes, NZ National government would sell government taken East Frame land to developers like Fletcher to build apartments bordering the East Frame. Example: Newstalk ZB implosion-site would become part of CERA's Blueprint East Frame / Rauora Park. The area bordered by Eastern 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 similar, mostly tilt-slab boxes.
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 East Frame included 14 storey, Newstalk ZB (Radio Network House) slated for implosion on Sunday 01.08.12, a first for NZ. CERA took a long time demolishing the CBD's ruined high-rises. (Central Police, Hereford St would be imploded on 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
Saturday 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
Sunday 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 February 2011 quake.
I trekked down Madras St past demolition-sites to Amicus House demolition-site, Madras St / Armagh St, where I joined rubberneckers & other photographers for pics. A crowd gathered, stretching from Centennial Pool ruin, Armagh St, around the corner & 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 was near The Christchurch Club ghost & next to a Clinic ruin in a steel-mesh-fence- cordon. DANGER signs hung on fences midway across Latimer Sq length. Since the quakes, besides normal road-signs & business- signs, citizens endured many new signs: Homemade signs by citizens on roadsides or fences; Formal signs by authorities like Council or CERA; Ad hoc signs advertising businesses & relocations; Threat-signs from authorites & stooges like Council, Civil Defence, NZDF, CERA & demolishers; Protest-signs. Power-poles, trees & steel-mesh-fence-cordons were convenient for sign displays. Threat-signs were tiresome. A fortune must've been spent on formal signs! br />
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 late-comer couple bearing tripod-camera & ladder pushed in front of me trying to jostle me away. I tapped the bloke's backpack saying, "Do you mind! I've positioned myself here for a good pic!" (Between two blokes on small ladders). Other photographers abounded. Most used their cell-phones for pics, some photographers stood on utes.
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
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. We heard two loud BANGS! (Leah later told me she heard them at Burnside). I got a million dollar pic while the building fell. A grey dust-cloud obscured the view. The crowd was jubilant. A bloke next to me snapped an automatic pic series while the building 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 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 south to see CERA's Blueprint 35 000 seater, roofed stadium site, bordered by east-west Hereford St & Tuam St & north-south Barbadoes St & Madras St on my left.
On my right, CERA's Blueprint East Frame went to St Asaph St by Christchurch Polytech. I wanted to see survivor buildings & demolished properties, which CERA would buy for its Blueprint stadium. Close to the CBD & Blueprint East Frame / Rauora Park the Blueprint stadium would be built on Christchurch Fault, diagonally oposite the CTV demolition-site where CTV multi-storey collapsed in the 22 February 2011 Quake killing 115 people, hallowed ground to become a memorial park. Opposite CTV demo-site loomed multi-storey IRD ghost.
Would businesses & residences thrive near a new looming stadium? Never mind ruined AMI stadium 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 ruined by the 22 February 2011 Quake & demolished. (That old Convention Centre demo-site would be vacant until 2021 when plans were announced to build apartments, offices & a hotel on-site).
Hereford St / Madras St / Latimer Sq junction: By Arrow House demolition-site, traffic was gridlocked after 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
South 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 East Frame, plastic flowers hung on CTV demolition-site's steel-mesh-fence-cordon. Beyond was Les Mills gym, recently reopened. In the Blueprint East Frame, IRD ghost loomed opposite the 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 CERA would 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 three ruins which CERA would buy for CERA's Blueprint stadium. Across Madras St, the old, brick stable would be demolished, enabling new apartments, East 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 red-zone-cordon & a NZDF-soldier checkpoint-hut on the Blueprint East Frame side. I saw three more ruins on the Blueprint stadium side, including a part-demolished building, NG boutique & CPR, which would survive the quakes. Years later they would also 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 South Frame began south from Lichfield St to St Asaph St then went along St Asaph St, parallel to Tuam St to the Health Precinct, starting at Montreal St & going 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, East Frame side of Madras St was lined by demolition-sites going east to completely demolished Poplar Ln. Those 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: I saw a concrete-lined hole filled with stagnant water on a demolition-site extending east across Turners & Growers site to Barbadoes St , in 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 demolition- sites & survivor buildings like Stellar & Element which CERA would 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: I saw more demolition-sites & Marketing Impact business & Sheppard & Rout Architects business, both survivor businesses needed for CERA's 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: I saw post-quake, brand-new Kirk / Roberts Engineering Consultants on pre-quakes Mackintosh Printers demolition-site. On the opposite corner was Turners & Growers site where a Diggers exhibition crowd socialized in a white, plastic, tunnel- marquee owned by the Christchurch Rebuild Support Centre. CERA would demolish brand-new Kirk / Roberts Engineering for CERA's Blueprint stadium.
*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 would 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 were 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: I saw the following quaked-businesses, all to be bought by CERA for CERA's Blueprint stadium: Demolition-sites; Tint-a-Car; Mackay Leighs Demolition; NZ Aids Association; a business building for lease (wishful thinking); Resene ColorShop; Canterbury Mazda, relocated; Blackwells Holden demolition-site opposite St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian demolition-site. And CTV demolition-site, hallowed ground across the road from the proposed stadium. I saw 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: I saw residential demolition-sites & business demolition-sites including demolished Hereford House all the way back to the Anglican Cardboard Cathedral site. Some ghost businesses would be bought by CERA for its Blueprint stadium. CERA's Blueprint stadium would isolate Anglican St Johns demolition-site where the Cardboard Cathedral would be built. What were CERA planners thinking plonking a stadium next to & looming above an Anglican Cathedral? That iniquity was obscured by its risible appelation: Transitional Cathedral.
Conflict between secular state planners & Anglican cathedral planners was evident by CERA's Blueprint contempt for Anglican heritage. At Cathedral Sq, CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae would tower over ruined Christ Church Cathedral! The new Convention Centre would completely block the pre-quakes flow of traffic along Gloucester St! More state contempt: A rebuild like Blueprint Central Library / Turanga would obscure quake-survivor Novotel's views in Cathedral Sq. Never mind other survivor hotels near or around Cathedral Sq, already 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
Thus many demolition-sites, residential-sites & commercial-sites would be bought by CERA for its Blueprint stadium between Madras St & Barbadoes St.
Never mind 100s of properties CERA needed to buy for its Blueprint East Frame & South Frame & 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? NZ National government had already revamped a temporary stadium which was only part-filled for rugby matches. Would CERA's Blueprint 35 000 seater, roofed stadium saddle ratepayers with stadium costs for decades?
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. A demolition-site by Morley House ruin was covered in grey-dust. A biker couple wearing leathers hugged each other by their parked motor bikes. Morley House would also be demolished for CERA's Blueprint East 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 approached the massive rubble-heap, a NEWSTALK ZB sign undulating atop the rubble, surrounded by annother steel-mesh-fence-cordon. Grey-dust covered nearby demolition-sites, a thick, gritty layer at the back of the ruined Clinic. A Ryan Security man wearing a yellow Hi-Vis vest talked to a woman. Another Ryan Security man directed vehicles onto a Gloucester St demolition-site next to the 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 & near Latimer Sq. A dusty car was parked Gloucester St / Manchester St. Camera tripods stood on the road at the back. North westwards, I saw PWC high-rise, a demolition-in-progress. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel loomed above the lot. After Newstalk ZB implosion, Pacific Tower was the tallest building in Christchurch.
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 4 September 2010 Quake's ground-zero site was being water-blasted by a team of workmen using a cherry-picker & high pressure hoses to wash off grey implosion dust. But brand-new Westende House was in CERA's Blueprint East Frame, so CERA would demolish Westende House in July 2015 for wider Manchester St footpaths, bus-lanes & bus- stops! By 2019 revamped Manchester St would constipate traffic with 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 ruin. Map: WELCOME TO CHRISTCHURCH. The site would becme part of new 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 February 2011 Quake, Newstalk ZB implosion was just one of many 100s of demolitions in the red-zone-CBD. Resurrections were NZ CERA dependent, as CERA would hold Christchurch's 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)..."
Christchurch CBD land-grab by CERA was 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 which would be demolished 2019.
Never mind that it would take three years before AMI Stadium insurance payout evolved, as part of a bulk payment for damaged Council assets.
Forsyth Barr stadium recently build in Dunedin was massively expensive for Dunedin ratepayers.
A new rugby stadium was thus forced on Christchurch citizens to be built on Christchurch Fault on land next to to Christchurch's Anglican Cardboard Cathedral, Latimer Sq & CERA's Blueprint East Frame. So far there were no offers to build or pay for the new stadium by Canterbury rugby authorities.
The Press, another CERA advert:
"NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR
THE JUSTICE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES
PRECINCT..."
For CERA's Blueprint Justice & Emergency Services Precinct 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 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, that was prime CBD land nabbed by CERA.
Although a temporary stadium was already revamped by Brownlee's rugger minions post 22 February 2011 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) opposite CTV demolition site where 115 people died in the 22 February 2011 Quake?
2021. Stadium construction hadn't even started. Plans had changed for a 25 000 seater stadium. Restored NG Building, a heritage building, on the stadium site, Madras St: 10 years post-quakes, NG Building owners' court-cases vs NZ government's land-grab for CERA's Blueprint stadium would 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 included 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 stadium construction, 2022-2024.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
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