Christchurch, New Zealand 2014 Geocoin Christchurch, New Zealand

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Released:
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Origin:
South Island, New Zealand
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Just want to travel accross the world.

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CHCH

The front of the coin shows the new cardboard church.

The 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011 killed more than 200 people and damaged thousands of buildings, including the city's oldest church, a grand stone copy of a gothic cathedral in Oxford. This week, two years after it fell, its replacement is open to the public. And it's unlike anything ever built in Christchurch—or the world.

In the aftermath of the disaster, Christchurch officials invited Japanese architect to come up with a temporary solution to the city's lack of a cathedral. Ban specializes in paper structures built with hollow (but strong) cardboard tubes. He's built dozens of traditional buildings using this technique, and even more temporary ones in disaster zones. Over the past three decades, he's frequently delayed his longer-term commissions to help out with emergency housing at crisis sites all over the world, staging large-scale emergency shelters in Japan and building durable cardboard homes in Haiti.

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Tracking History (115580.1mi) View Map

Visited 7/6/2019 AdventureTharon took it to BdH3b - "Balade dans Houraing" Hainaut, Belgium - 678.1 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/27/2019 AdventureTharon took it to Auschwitz - The forgotten cemetery Małopolskie, Poland - 11,055.81 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/27/2019 AdventureTharon took it to Auschwitz - The forgotten cemetery Małopolskie, Poland - 895.99 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/19/2019 AdventureTharon took it to OB#05-Omaha la sanglante - Bloody Omaha Normandie, France - 11,946.61 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/18/2019 AdventureTharon took it to 75th Anniversary of D-Day Eastern England, United Kingdom - 11,816.43 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/5/2019 AdventureTharon took it to Unmarked roadside picnic area by ‘lake’ (catlins) South Island, New Zealand - 17.56 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/5/2019 AdventureTharon took it to Hanging Gardens South Island, New Zealand - 50.06 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/5/2019 AdventureTharon took it to Welcome to the Catlins (Southland) South Island, New Zealand - 32.28 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/5/2019 AdventureTharon took it to Tahakopa Bay car park barrier (catlins) South Island, New Zealand - 45.98 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/5/2019 AdventureTharon took it to Gone!! (Otago) South Island, New Zealand - 39.21 miles  Visit Log
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