Hotel demolition allows crew to channel their inner Keith Moon.
Work is underway on the latest New Zealand hotel to undergo demolition as a result of the 2011 earthquake that devastated large swathes of Christchurch.
Demolition of the Copthorne Hotel in Victoria Square has begun, but the owners still do not know whether they can rebuild on the site.
NZX-listed Millennium & Copthorne Hotels NZ wants to rebuild on the same site, but the space has been earmarked as a potential site for a performing arts precinct.
Demolition workers were today clearing the upper levels of the 10-storey, 142-room hotel, including throwing television sets out of the open space that was once the wall of one of the rooms within the building.
Managing director BK Chiu said there would probably be another six or eight weeks of demolition, but whether a rebuild would take place was still out of the company’s control.
While that wrangle continues, crews could be seen thorwing TV sets out of eighth storey windows in true rock star fashion.
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