Tom Davies Square is the city hall

City hall

In local government, a city hall, town hall or a municipal building or civic centre, is the chief administrative building of a city...

 of Greater Sudbury, Ontario

Ontario

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Built in the 1970s and formerly known as Civic Square, the building was part of an urban renewal

Urban renewal

Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. Renewal has had both successes and failures. Its modern incarnation began in the late 19th century in developed nations and experienced an intense phase in the late 1940s – under the rubric of...

 movement toward transforming the city's visual image by investing in more distinctive and modern architecture. The square consists of a triangular

Triangle

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 main building with its right angle facing the corner of Brady and Paris Streets and a glass

Glass

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-walled hypoteneuse facing onto an outdoor plaza

Plaza

Plaza is a Spanish word related to "field" which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square. All through Spanish America, the plaza mayor of each center of administration held three closely related institutions: the cathedral, the cabildo or administrative center, which might be...

 in the centre of the complex. This building contains the city hall proper, its administrative offices and the city council chambers. A diamond

Rhombus

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-shaped second building located to the west once contained the Sudbury Public School Board

Rainbow District School Board

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 and the Sudbury Public Library

Greater Sudbury Public Library

The Greater Sudbury Public Library is a public library in Sudbury, Ontario.The library has 13 branches throughout the city. The main branch is called "Mackenzie" and it is located on Mackenzie Street in the city's downtown core...

's Archives branch. It now houses the headquarters of the Greater Sudbury Police Service

Greater Sudbury Police Service

The Greater Sudbury Police Service is the police force for Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The service is currently made up of 255 uniformed staff and 102 civilians. Two K-9 officers are included in the uniform staff....

. Another diamond-shaped building housing provincial government offices was added to the northeast corner of the site several years later.

Prior to the completion of the current facility, the former city hall was so overcrowded that the civic administration was operating out of several different downtown office buildings, and council meetings had to be held in the auditorium of the Sudbury Public Library's Mackenzie branch.

The facility was renamed in 1997 in honour of Tom Davies, the retiring chairman of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury

Regional Municipality of Sudbury, Ontario

The Regional Municipality of Sudbury was a regional municipality in Ontario, Canada, which existed from 1973 to 2000.-Structure:The regional municipality expanded the boundaries of the city of Sudbury to annex the community of Copper Cliff, the unincorporated geographic township of Broder and half...

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