Victor Cagayat couldn’t make it down for the 2023 festival and it rained, but we made the most of it anyway with some support from fabulous local performers and stall holders.
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Ice Sculpting 2015
The rebuild
The West-side of the store
Blackwell's North-East corner
Blackwell's West entrance
The all new Blackwell's Department Store in November 2013
The new West entrance showing the lift
West end of the building from the carpark
View from the first floor office
The new Nor-East corner Sept 2013
Is a great view from this window
The new corner profile Sept 2013
Front corner Sept 2013
The new River Road side face
Looking good from the river side
From River Road Sept 2013
Front corner Sept 2013
The new West-end entrance revealed
The building reveals itself
Preparing to remove the scaffolding
The new roof in the Winter sun
The new roof going on
Anchoring down the roof panels
Framing on the West end
First floor framing
First floor windows
First floor windows
Installing the glass is a careful process
Some big suckers and the crew
New stairs installed
The first floor
The steel work for the roof
View of the river from the first floor
First floor framing
View up into the first floor
First floor panels
First view from the first floor
First floor panels in place
Lifting in the first floor panels
Panorama view of the downstairs
First floor framing begins
North side showing first floor
North-west corner
North-east corner
North-east corner showing connection to old building
First floor concrete panels going in
North-west side
Solid foundations begin the building base
The building foundations take shape
Solid foundations on the new building Solid foundations on the new building
Foundation steel work
Incredible amount of steel in the new foundations Incredible amount of steel in the new foundations
Concrete floor around piles
Piles in place
Six metre screw piles
Driving a screw pile
Foundation work
Driving the piles
You can peak through the hoardings whenever you like
The hoardings in place
Blackwells Department Store building in February 2015 Photo by David Alexander
Blackwells Department Store building - Nov 2013 Blackwells Department Store building - Nov 2013
The demolition
The historic facade of the Blackwell's Department Store in Kaiapoi
The Blackwell's store logo on the Williams Street corner, Kaiapoi.
