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Seismic design, in wood
Christchurch will soon be home to two new commercial buildings built of Expan, a post-tensioned laminated veneer lumber (LVL) building system that makes lightweight, seismically safe multi-storey...
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Seismic design: engineering wood
Professor Andy Buchanan is a proud Cantabrian.He is Christchurch born and bred and did his first degree in engineering at the University of Canterbury in the late 1960s. He then started work as a...
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Reconstruction: Conversations on a City
Reconstruction: Conversations on a City will track the story of Christchurch from its earliest years and provide a visual account of how the city came to be. A fascinating selection of digitised...
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Phantom City: Doc Ross's Christchurch 1998-2011
Since moving to Christchurch in 1998, Doc Ross has been photographing its buildings, streets and urban spaces with a quietly attentive eye. At first a clear response to a new environment, his carefully...
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The final blueprint for a new Christchurch
608 hectares of Christchurch city, including Hagley Park, will be divided into precincts for health, arts and entertainment, retail, and the justice and emergency sectors. New facilities will be built...
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A golden opportunity to warm up Christchurch
I’ve been making a lot of trips down to Christchurch since the earthquakes.It’s a complex situation – there is much to do and many issues still to be resolved. Many Christchurch residents are still...
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Resene Art in the Streets SCAPE Christchurch Murals
SCAPE Public Art installs large scale, free-to-view contemporary public art at sites in central Christchurch, New Zealand.Rachael Dewhirst - a fourth year student of Fine Arts at Canterbury University...
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Quake city
An hour before midnight on 13 November, I was looking up at the big, bright supermoon beaming down over Wellington, through a brilliantly clear sky. Just an hour later, the whole city was woken up by...
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It takes a disaster for property purchasers to take notice of land hazard...
Property purchasers may be under-informed about the exposure of a property to damage by a natural disaster, according to researchers from RMIT University. A new study that looked at house prices in...
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What does resilient architecture look like now?
Buchan Regional Operations Leader and Christchurch Principal Raylene McEwan said the country was experiencing a significant shift, with multiple design challenges around bank funding for projects,...
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Inside Christ Church Cathedral, Part 1
Works on the Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement project began on-site in May 2020 to take the Cathedral from post-quake devastation to a place of worship, and to restore the iconic heart of the...
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Seismic safety: Academics deem building standards unclear
In an earthquake, we need to know we will be safe in the buildings where we work, write Dr Nadia Dabee and Dr Toni Collins in an article that explores building safety regulations.Unfortunately, the two...
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Earthquake prone: how can we bring our riskiest buildings up to scratch?
Seismic risk mitigation for earthquake-prone buildings, particularly older structures with unreinforced masonry, is critical to ensure public safety, but many building owners are deterred by cost...
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Exclusive series: Inside Christ Church Cathedral, Part 2
We are excited to celebrate a significant milestone — the stabilisation stage of the project is complete and we are now able to get inside and begin to acquaint ourselves with the material and...
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Shifting Foundations: Post-quake architecture of Ōtautahi Christchurch
Shifting Foundations is an interesting collection of essays reviewing the last 12 years of rebuilding since the earthquakes. While each of the essays has a different focus, there is a recurrent theme...
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