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Killer quake: Sir John Key reflects on NZ's "darkest day" 13 minutes to read Sir John Key was Prime Minister when his hometown, Christchurch, was devastated in the February 22, 2011 earthquake. He was dropped into the still shaking, cracked chaos of "New Zealand's darkest day". Ten years on, he reflects on those horrific first 24 hours, and how a rebuilt Garden City could become our own Silicon Valley. Kurt Bayer reports. The meeting, high on the ninth floor of the Beehive paused to ride out the shaking. Everyone stopped talking, looking at each other. Once it stopped, discussion res...

The 8100sq m site is bordered by Madras, Gloucester and Armagh streets. The land is worth about $10 million based on current land prices, and could hold up to 100 homes. It was originally acquired by the Crown under rebuild legislation, and the subsequent competition to choose a multi-disciplinary team to create the village drew 58 entries from 15 countries. Under the original concept, the requirement was “to create an exemplar central city neighbourhood displaying medium density homes, based on sustainable design principles, to inspire and shape modern urban living in Christchurch”. ...

A decade on, a tale of two cities Newsroom 18/02/2021 © Provided by Newsroom Post-quake Christchurch has come a long way in 10 years, but is, in part, a confusion of contrasts and contradictions. Have our expectations been too high? David Williams reports Ann Brower doesn’t mind being in central Christchurch, which is surprising, really. On February 22, 2011, the bus she was riding along Colombo St was crushed by building debris – the parapet and façade of an unreinforced masonry building – after a 6.3 magnitude quake hit, killing 185 people. Twelve people died beside her. In Browe...

A big block of central city land made vacant by the Christchurch earthquakes, is for sale

John Kirk-Anderson/Stuff Mike Yardley was among the many Christchurch residents to find their way to Latimer Square shortly after the devastating earthquake on February 22, 2011. OPINION: February 22. It’s not just a date but a stake, a monumental marker that’s been driven deep and defining into the timeline of our lives. A date that elicits a heady spectrum of emotions and that reflexive sense of contorted discomfort in the pits of our stomachs. I’m not a big anniversary kind of guy. I don’t routinely binge on marking dates, but this year feels different because it is. The tenth a...