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Sticks and stones

Behind the scenes

The historic Canterbury Provincial Chambers are slowly being pulled apart piece by piece, labelled and placed in specially made crates seen here in the foreground.

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The image of this iconic Canterbury building, with its collapsed roof and masonry walls spilled out over Durham Street, as I made my home on the 22nd February 2011, has remained firmly ingrained in my mind. It was the first collapsed building I passed and the first in a string of shocking images that day. This for me is one of Benjamin Mountfort's best architectural designs and the interior, with its beautifully painted curved wooden ceiling beams and geometric ceramic tiles on the walls, was truly something to behold. Way smaller in scale than either the Anglican or Catholic Cathedrals this is the sort of heritage building that I think the city should focus on restoring.

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