Christchurch City Camera Roll – January 7th – Part 5

This was right next door to the 185 chairs monument. It made for a colourful juxtaposition.

In Christchurch, having the sunshine is unreliable, and even if you’ve got it now, it might leave in a few minutes time. We happened to have it right at this moment.

Brand new parking building. I can’t get over how much this photo looks like an architectural rendering.

We didn’t try it to ascertain authenticity, however Natalie noted they didn’t have a jar of garlic salt on the tables (they did have red pepper flakes though.)

Poplar lane. Used to be filled with old brick buildings, housing hip bars and cafes. Vodka bars, micro-breweries. One of my old favourites (and regular after school spots) The Twisted Hop used to be in the now teal brick building. No longer.

Funky trees, made of wood. (As opposed to the trees not made of wood?)

The Queen’s corgies. There used to be an ice cream that the little guy at the back was sniffing after. Maybe someone stole it.

When Natalie saw this painting in the art gallery, she swore she’d seen it before somewhere. We found the somewhere.

Shipping containers, keeping the front from falling off an old heritage building. Behind it, a brand new building.

A mini on a wall. This has been here since before the earthquake.

Traffic light sheep. Or sheep traffic light.

There never used to be as many large scale wall art pieces as there are now. It’s a change that I like.

More beautification of a cordon wall.

Our favourite food stall in the shipping crate mall (Re:Start Mall). The Pork and the Vegetarian dumplings were the best. The first time we were fools and only got a 6 piece. The people in the stall were nice enough to give our inevitable second helping for $5, pretending we’d ordered the 12 piece all along.

The sparrows are all over the show in the food section of the Re:Start Mall. They claim any little tit-bit which escapes uneaten by humans.

This is on the bank of the Avon River. There seem to be more like it planned.

The new Christchurch City Council building.

An apt message for this day and age. This is the side of the art gallery.

The art gallery. It escaped remarkably unscathed during the 2011 earthquake. So much so that the administrative efforts which immediately followed used it as a base of operations.

Telephone boxes. A dying breed.

The Arts Center. I used to get piano lessons here when I was younger. One of our favourite cafes, Bunsen, is here.

A jester.

The plaque says it all.

A nice stained glass window inside the art center building.

There is a matching statue to this standing in the Avon which I didn’t snap a shot of.

The Canterbury Museum. As I took this, I mused over what the museum could have held when it opened in 1870.