High-rise apartment buildings

Date: 1870

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :Sketches taken in the Alps. By W. S. G. 1870.

Reference: E-578-q-005

Description: A scene in Chamounix Switzerland, showing a large apartment building, a cafe and people standing on the pavement. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 308 x 245 mm (page size)

Date: 1977

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-282

Description: A man standing glumly on a narrow balcony in a high-rise block of appartments while three small children play at his feet. One child peers over the edge of the balcony to the city far below Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005224

Description: Shows four high rise buildings bending over in the wind. On the ground people are struggling to walk in the street. One of the person comments about the bending buildings that "with the Easterly they 'aint gonna get beyond three storeys anyhow!". Refers to the possibility of high rise buildings in the Christchurch suburb of Brighton. Published in The Press, 29 March 2005 Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 2008

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0007804

Description: Shows a city of highrise buildings. A man calls out from his balcony to another man who sits reading a paper in his even higher balcony and reminds him of what Ngaruawahia was like in the old days. The highrise buildings are intended to depict Waikato in 50 years time when the population has doubled. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0002171

Description: The scene is a highrise apartment building onto the back of which a cascade of mud and rocks from the cliff behind has slipped. A couple stare out of the window at the slip and wonder what they should do about the site engineer and developer who are buried in the mud. The husband recommends not hurrying to contact rescue services. Refers to slips in the wealthy Oriental Bay area of Wellington that occured in August 2006 because of heavy rain; there was a suggestion that developers were cutting corners for profit. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 24 Mar 2012

From: BeckerFraserPhotos :Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011

Reference: PADL-000714

Description: Photographs of Christchurch showing the effects of the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes and the recovery effort, taken 24 March 2012. Includes photographs of Christchurch city skyline from Cashmere Hills, wildflowers on Sydenham demolition site (Old Sydneham Post Office), earthquake resistance graffiti 'Christchurch destined to rise', a pile of rubble which is fenced off and with a sign 'Property of Sydenham Heritage Trust' and demolition of the Dorest Towers. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called "MAr 24 - Sklyline City" Quantity: 8 digital photograph(s).