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These photos supplied to NewstalkZB.co.nz are from inside the Hotel Grand Chancellor and the area surrounding it after the February 22 quake.

The carpark (left) next door to the Hotel Grand Chancellor

The carpark (left) next door to the Hotel Grand Chancellor

The carpark building next to the Hotel Grand Chancellor

Inside the Hotel Grand Chancellor

Inside the Hotel Grand Chancellor
– NewstalkZB.co.nz
Guest on 24/03/2011 1:33pm
…glad to see it coming down it was chch’s ugliest building for sure…lets hope the people in charge of designing our new chch have a bit more taste…..that post/column and slab construction will aways fail on soft ground,even worse when it gets banged up from underneath and falls at twice the speed of gravity.
Neil on 3/05/2011 2:04am
I agree with you, it is a very ugly building. Sad to see it has to come down in this fashion though. I too hope to see much more attractive buildings in its place.