I really like Kitchener City Hall. Living downtown Kitchener now, I walk by it and have been in it quite a number of times. It's exceedingly comfortable feeling. It's got a rich and well-employed palette of materials employed and the proportions inside are wonderfully fit. It feels lofty but not diminishing, finely restrained but never arid or harsh. Even the utility payment room is warmly lit, relaxing and a pleasure to visit - and how often can you say that about a billing and payment room? (grin)
It's very much a product of the 90's. I feel echoes of Mississauga City Hall going on here, along with Barton and Meyer's now-subsumed AGO addition. It's aging well enough though, unlike a lot of po-mo works. It's not overly fanciful, extravagant or odd - things that can be a byword when designing a public building at the center of taxpaying and governance - but with what it's got, it works really well.