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#18 Appetite for Destruction

As we saw last time, the Iveagh Hall was crammed to bursting before it was refurbished. In truth, the publicly accessible areas of it were still crammed *after* refurbishment; the years since 2002 have seen a steady stream of moves of material into, out of, and around the Iveagh Hall. We’ll look at that, and the future of the space, later!

Here’s the architects’ vision of the Hall – which users of the Berkeley of the last 15 years will recognise.

But it’s pictures of carnage you are here for. Here’s some more images of the refurbishment taking place, mainly of the Iveagh Hall but with a few of related areas being remodelled with prejudice. Then Keeper of Readers’ Services, Trevor Peare, took these in May 2002:

All gallery images by Trevor Peare.

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