The City Hall and its setting represent the history and evolution of Richmond's citizens, culture, and landscape. Its open spaces are well connected to other civic and public buildings, retail, and recreation sites. By expanding the function and role of the public realm, the City Hall serves the community as a meeting place and as a symbolic centre. Spaces are defined and enclosed within their immediate setting by groupings of mature trees, within which the landscape endeavours to capture and interpret the character of the greater Richmond landscape. This site evokes a sense of the city's water edges along with its native and cultivated landscapes through abstractions of landform and vegetation.
