The flying Odeon roof, Elvis has not left the building, & Christchurch sunsets: 2012 in pictures: September

March 27, 2013July 10, 2016 / kebabette / Leave a comment

The Press Christchurch Writers Festival.

Biblia Abiblia

A Ron Mueck eye.

40 flavours of heaven.

Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Christchurch sunset.

When you work in the CBD of Christchurch, you are never short on things to see. On 10 September, I looked down Tuam Street and saw the roof of the Odeon sailing away.

And it landed on Manchester Street.

The colours of the ECAN building on Kilmore Street, unmasked.

A visit to Woodend.

Democracy rally.

A vacant space on Colombo Street made kind of beautiful by the setting sun.

Christchurch danglers, high above the Holiday Inn.

Parklife: a radiocontrolled helicopter gets stuck in a tree in St Albans Park.

Craig Smith in concert, at Central Library Tuam.

Demolition on the strip.

Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Elvis in Shand’s Emporium – one of those iconographic Christchurch sights.

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Mannequins face the future, things implode, and new art busts in: 2012 in pictures: August

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A discarded sign of protest. TC3 land.

I go for the jewellery pileup.

Fabulous book bargains from Just Incredible in South City Mall.

Morning implosion of Newstalk ZB.

After the implosion, a trampoline on Kilmore Street.

Margaret Mahy storytime at Central Library Peterborough.

The BMX track, not just for bikes.

Loved the Youth Market on Barbadoes Street.

More book buys, half the marked price:

Happy birthday Grandad.

A few of my favourite things, a fabulous hand-done piece by Sarah Laing.

An abandoned house, alive with the morning light.

The fab Wongi Tradestaff mural takes shape on the corner of Colombo and St Asaph Street.

Graffiti on St Asaph Street.

The Railway Station on Moorhouse Avenue.

You take paradise, you put up a parking lot.

Tjalling is innocent. Christchurch Art Gallery work on the back of COCA.

The Clarendon continues its stately decline.

Mannequins in the Re:START face they know not what.

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Margaret Mahy, Michael Parekowhai, little felt workers, and Christchurch words – 2012 in pictures: July

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Who can resist a photo of a baby with a book?

Story blankets for Matariki – at Rehua Marae.

A close-up.

Wee girl meets the Michael Parekowhai bulls.

Central Library Peterborough. The art is by Richard Killeen: The inner binding – a Christchurch Art Gallery Outer Spaces project

Newstalk ZB pre-implosion.

Methodist Mission demolition on Durham Street North.

Memorial on Colombo Street.

Kendal Avenue Park.

Flying over the Clarendon.

Grant Thornton building demolition.

Morning on Colombo Street.

Words in the gutter.

One of Christchurch’s cutaway houses.

Sign o’the times.

Abberley Park.

View from the NG Gallery.

The Michael Parekowhai piano.

Busted up signage on Lichfield Street.

I pay tribute to Margaret Mahy, who died on 23 July 2012.

Poetica on Colombo Street.

Craft Invaders market.

High Street.

Ladies on the toilet block at St Albans Park.

Car flying on the skate ramp.

The awesome Kia Kaha sign of Edgeware.

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