Otakaro Limited, the crown company handling the Christchurch rebuild has posted this time lapse video of the construction of the new Christchurch Earthquake memorial.
The Canterbury Earthquake Memorial wall is being unveiled today on the sixth anniversary of the February 2011 earthquake.
The national earthquake memorial is a multi-million dollar wall that has the names of the 185 people who lost their lives etched into it. Those who lost family members viewed itlast night.
The names have been sandblasted onto 21 of the wall's 517 panels of Italian marble.
Messages left at the Christrchurch earthquake memorial. Photo / Martin Hunter, Christchurch Star
Otakaro Limited, Christchurch City Council, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu and the Ministry of Culture and Heritage worked closely with families, those who were severely injured and first responders through the development of the design for the memorial.
Mayor Lianne Dalziel says the wall acknowledges death and life.
She says it's there for the dead, the seriously injured and those who lost homes and jobs, but also acknowledges all those who have contributed to the Christchurch recovery.
Christchurch Central MP Nicky Wagner is proud of the way the wall - on the north side of the Avon River - encompasses what the families wanted.
Messages left for Christchurch earthquake victims. Photo / Martin Hunter, Christchurch Star
And there was plenty of emotion on the eve of today's anniversary, when Bruce Springsteen performed a three-hour show in Christchurch last night.
