Places

Date: 2012

Reference: Eph-B-EARTHQUAKE-Christchurch-2012

Description: Includes: Canterbury Earthquake Heritage Buildings Fund. Building a sense of place. Mahoney & Pickford. Photographic exhibition, Worcester Boulevard, 17th october - 9th December 2012. [Pamphlet] Celebrate suffrage; Rebuild with our vote. Suffrage Day celebration Wednesday 19 September [2012]. Flyer The heart of our city; a documentary film. Sunday July 15th at the Court Theatre, at the end of Bernard St, Addington [2012] [Postcard-sized flyer] (2 copies) Rally for democracy; our city, our say. ECAn Education Heritage, central City Plan; WeCan. Sat December 1, 2pm Latimer Square. March to Cranmer Square [2012]. Flyer (2 copies) Rally for the Cathedral. Save our heritage! Saturday May 26th. 2.30pm Cranmer Square. Christchurch cathedral can be saved, can be made safe, can be restored [2012] Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team. be alert; be careful; Bee safe [Circular sticker. 2012?] (2 copies) Re:START access & parking map. Supported by ASB [2012] Saving heritage - latest news. Cathedral public meeting, Thursday 6 September [at] Cashmere Presbyterian Church Hall. Flyer Spiritual noursihment for a broken city. A joint venture provided by Rosary House Spiritual Life centre; Sister Eveleen in the City. 2012 programme Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT). Fact sheets numbers 1-6 (Differs from set of ten similarly title fact sheets at Eph-A-LOCAL-Christchurch-2012) Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team. Information on ground anchors Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 320 mm.

Date: 2012

By: Christchurch (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-C-EARTHQUAKE-Christchurch-2012-01

Description: Sheet gives advice on how to build a house based on economy and environmental principles, with specific advice on positioning on the land for best solar energy use, views, drainage, shelter. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 297 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Kathy Palmer, National Library Christchurch, in 2012.

Date: 2014

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0029798

Description: Cartoon shows a person in the hospital, wrapped in bandages from head to toe, representing the city of Christchurch. There are three IV drip bags labelled 'Cathedral', 'Stadium', and 'Convention centre' feeding the patient. A doctor comes into the room holding another bag labelled, 'Fresh innovative thinking' and says, "Can't we try THIS instead? I'm sure he'll recover a lot faster!" Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 30 September - 3 October 2014

From: Love, Valerie J, 1980- : Photographs

Reference: PADL-001280

Description: Photographs of Christchurch City taken 30 September - 3 October 2014, showing the effects of the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. The photographs show street scenes, damaged buildings, vacant lots, construction sites, rebuilding efforts, signage, and new buildings. The images also include photographs of transitional spaces and temporary art installations around the central city, including projects by GapFiller and Greening The Rubble, and the NZ Ice Fest, and art works by Sara Hughes, Chris Heaphy, Neil Dawson, Julia Morison, and Lonnie Hutchinson. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Valerie Love is a staff member at the Alexander Turnbull Library. The photographs were taken while she was in Christchurch attending the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) 2014 annual meeting. Quantity: 154 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025763

Description: A helicopter in Christchurch flies over newly constructed boxes, representing buildings, out of which ugly humanoid faces leer. A comment from the helicopter is 'Not ugly...Just architecturally challenged!'. The new buildings being put up in the aftermath of the Christchutrch earthquakes and demolition, owing to the constraints of excessive earthquake standards and cost, were drab, cheap-looking and unimaginative. The defence by some of their unnoticeable beauty seemed strained. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024160

Description: Shows a sick and damaged Christchurch Anglican Cathedral in a hospital bed with two attendants. The Cathedral asks 'Can ya just pull the plug and let me die peacefully?'. Context refers to recent comments by Bishop Victoria Matthews that the Christchurch Cathedral is 'being left to die with no dignity' because of ongoing legal battles about its future. There has been ongoing debate and controversy over whether the Cathedral should be demolished, reconstructed or restored following damage suffered in the February 2011 Earthquake. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024535

Description: Shows Christchurch Cathedral as an injured old woman, hanging down from a crane. A group of people look on and say, 'Who needs a younger model when we can give this old girl a makeover!' Refers to new design options for the Christchurch Cathedral, which was badly damaged by the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. (One News, 4 April 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025525

Description: Mock warning notice featuring feral dogs and the wording 'Warning to all visitors and worker in the Christchurch Accommodation Wilderness: If you wish to survive, give an arm and a leg to any wild dog [Canis Landlordius] which calls at your tent or caravan'. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'Christchurch desperately needs workers in the rebuild. Rack-rent landlords are a pox on this effort'. With the need for labour in the Christchurch rebuild, incoming workers were discouraged by the high rents charged by local landlords exploiting the shortage of accommodation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021635

Description: Shows Bishop Victoria Matthews reading a brochure offering cheap deals for cathedrals and their various accoutrements. Context: refers to the debate about the fate of the Christchurch Cathedral. Bishop Victoria Matthews is in favour of demolishing the cathedral to a certain safe level. The lobby for saving the cathedral, wrecked by the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, is very strong. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022377

Description: Refers to the rebuilding of the Christchurch Cathedral. Context: There is continuing debate over whether the cathedral should be demolished or not and in the meantime a Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been commissioned to create a cathedral from cardboard. The 700-person-capacity structure will be completed by December and will cost $4 million. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020366

Description: A small boy is having trouble as he tries to build a sand castle in wet sand. His father recommends that he rebuilds on the same site. Context: concerns that rebuilding in swampy sandy Christchurch and hoping for no more earthquakes will doom Christchurch and the South Island to long-term loss of investment and to indefinite insecurity. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022332

Description: The cartoon depicts a rose window set in a stone wall. The glass circles each contain a dollar sign. Refers to the future of the Christchurch Cathedral after the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. The Anglican Church seemed to only consider the money in arguing that it would be too expensive to be repaired or rebuilt. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021630

Description: Shows a carcass that represents the Christchurch Cathedral with many people rushing to try to save it from demolition. Context: the extremely controversial debate about whether the Christchurch Cathedral which was severely damaged in the earthquakes, should be demolished, rebuilt on the same site in the same style or partially demolished and made into a memorial. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020872

Description: Shows a family living in cardboard boxes. A neighbour living in the same circumstances has been reading the newspaper and tells the family that the church is building a cathedral from cardboard after seeing how people like them live. Context: There are serious problems over adequate housing in Christchurch after the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. There is continuing debate over whether the cathedral should be demolished or not and in the meantime a Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been commissioned to create a cathedral from cardboard. The 700-person-capacity structure will be completed by December and will cost $4 million. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018703

Description: Text reads 'The new liquefaction?...' and the cartoon depicts a huge mass of 'insurance red tape' inside which is a man with a spade. Two people stare despairingly at the red tape and the man says 'How are we EVER gonna rebuild with this stuff bubbling up!' Context: The people are trying to rebuild their house after the Christchurch earthquakes and are having trouble with their insurance company. The Press has been contacted by people unable to get insurance to buy new homes, construct buildings or start businesses. Business leaders have called insurance delays a "cancer" eating away at the city's recovery, and Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee has acknowledged insurance is an "ongoing problem". (The Press - 24 August 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019822

Description: A helicopter from Christchurch flies over New Zealand looking for somewhere to rebuild but everywhere are notices referring to fires, floods, oily beaches, volcanoes and geysers, quakes, landslides. Nowhere seems to be safe. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018535

Description: A woman in a burqa walks out of the 'Church of the Multi-denominations'. The church has a steeple and an onion dome. Context: The cartoonist says that the cartoon was drawn for a satirical piece about the rebuilding of Christchurch. Because of the number of churches damaged, including the Anglican cathedral, The cartoon suggests that there should just build one massive church on the AMI stadium site that all religions can use on their particular day....spires would be raised and lowered etc. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022873

Description: Under the caption 'Best value for money?' is a football stadium displaying a red cross. From within a voice proclaims the advantages of having a combined covered stadium, hospital and blood bank. Under CERA, the Christchurch Central Development Unit had planned for a covered sports stadium, with attached facilities and shops as one of the key sites in the Christchurch rebuild after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. The 'blood bin' refers to the recent practice in rugby of sending off players with flesh wounds. There were also plans for a new hospital. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023272

Description: Shows a man clinging to the red stage curtains outside Christchurch's Town Hall. Refers to Christchurch city council's decision to repair the Town Hall, one of Christchurch's few remaining iconic buildings. (New Zealand Herald, 30 Oct 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018652

Description: Three people stand looking down at a small model of the 'Christchurch CBD'. One of the people says 'Love the safer low-rise plan What's the scale?' A second man says 'Scale? Er this is the actual size!' Context: Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker has dedicated the draft plan for a new-look Christchurch CBD to those lost in the February earthquake. The CBD will be about a quarter of its original size under the draft plan which was unanimously adopted by the council today. (TVNZ 11 August 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).