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The building was adapted as a substation in 1945, following World War II.
The Dugout provides tangible evidence of a strategic means of communication between Australia and her allies during World War II.  It also provides evidence of the defence measures that were introduced in Canberra during World War II.  The building as it presents today conveys nothing of its war time uses.

3.1.4               Associations
In reflecting on historical value, the Burra Charter Practice Note encourages consideration of a site's association with a people or groups that are 'important in the history of the local area, state, nationally or globally'.
West Block is associated with:
      * J S Murdoch, Chief Architect of the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways.  Murdoch's Department was responsible for the three buildings within the group, as well as a great many others in Canberra in the period leading up the end of the 1920s.  Murdoch has been credited with the development of the Federal Capital style, of which West Block, East Block and the Provisional Parliament House were early examples (see also Section 3.2.1).  Murdoch also expressed strong views about the landscape treatment for the Parliamentary precinct and is credited with the selection of poplars for the principal intersections and boundaries.
      * Charles Weston, officer-in-charge of Afforestation (later Parks and Gardens) at the national capital from 1913 to 1926.  Weston established nurseries and propagated plants suited to the conditions in Canberra.  He also oversaw the planting and landscape development of the city.  His varied concepts and approaches are expressed in the divergent characters of the landscape to all sides of West Block. See Section 2.4.4 in Chapter 2).
      * Walter Burley Griffin, winner of the international competition for the design of the federal capital and Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction from 1913 to 1920.  As noted, Griffin's plans for the Parliament House group were implemented to the extent that he envisaged the Parliamentary Triangle as the seat of government, and for buildings within the triangle to be sited symmetrically on either side of the Land Axis.

3.2                    Assessment of aesthetic value
The 'Understanding and assessing cultural significance' Practice Note to the Burra Charter 2013 provides the following definition of aesthetic value:
Aesthetic value refers to the sensory and perceptual experience of a place—that is, how we respond to visual and non-visual aspects such as sounds, smells and other factors having a strong impact on human thoughts, feelings and attitudes.  Aesthetic qualities may include the concept of beauty and formal aesthetic ideals.  Expressions of aesthetics are culturally influenced.
In considering aesthetic value, ask:
       >      Does the place have special compositional or uncommonly attractive qualities involving combinations