Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00620:body:0:p73
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00620
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 199441–202301

attributes and elements
Significant attributes and elements at West Block should be conserved.
Significant attributes and elements are:
      * The external presentation of West Block, as a free-standing structure with a general consistency of character demonstrative of the Federal Capital style.  This includes fabric dating to various dates between 1926 (construction) and 1948 (date of the last major external alterations)
      * Original internal features and fabric of West Block specifically:
>         The north-south axis (spine) that connects the four blocks (A-D) on each level
>         The two staircases in B Block
>         Original (or early) timber ceiling panels where extant in A, B and C Blocks, including a section that is known to survive on the ground floor of B Block (see Chapter 2)
>         Timber columns and beams to levels 1 and 2 of A, B and C Blocks
(Note: Aside from the north-south axis, internal fabric and treatments within D Block (1944) are of little or no significance.)
      * The Dugout, to the extent of fabric dating to the 1940s
      * Structural landscape elements, specifically:
>         The original integral car park
>         The service road between West Block and its integral car park (as truncated in the 1980s)
>         The axial walkway extending the northern formal axis from across Queen Victoria Terrace to the north face of West Block.
Trees dating to the 1920s (Figure 47), specifically:
>         Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica') to the north of West Block, associated with the axial walkway and a paired poplar planting on the other side of Queen Victoria Terrace
>         Arizona cypresses (Cupressus Arizonica) (x4) to the north of West Block, two either side of the façade
>         Atlantic cedars (Cedrus Atlantica) (x2) to the west side of the integral car park
>         White poplar (Populus alba) to Queen Victoria Terrace
>         Giant redwood (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the integral car park, single specimen at the north end of the car park, adjacent to Commonwealth Avenue (two others recently deceased / removed)
>         Possible specimens of American elm (Ulmus Americana) (up to x6) around the integral car park
      * Landscape features and characteristics as established in the 1920s, specifically:
>         Formal termination of the northern axial walkway at the north face of West Block, by way of a pair of Lombardy Poplars (one survives) located within a surrounding setting of four Arizona cypress specimens.
>         A mixed plantation of exotic specimens to the north and west of West Block, including around the car park ('Zone 1' at Figure 47) and service road, including multiple bands of structural planting as defined in the 1928 planting plan.  Each band of trees was selected and grouped to provide formal structure, amenity shade and visual