It is located in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City downtown, bounded by Pasteur, Lý Tự Trọng, Đồng Khởi, and Lê Thánh Tôn streets, with its front facade facing Nguyễn Huệ Boulevard square.

[1] The building served as an administrative house for past governments during French colonial period and Vietnam War.

Ho Chi Minh City Hall is now Vietnam's National Heritage Site and is open for public at the last weekend of a month.

[2] After victories over conquests in Southern Vietnam, in 1870, the French drafted a plan to build an office for municipal council of Saigon at Kinh Lớn ("Big Canal").

The laurel wreath usually implies victory, while the Caduceus is Hermes's staff, often recalled as the symbol of commercial activity or negotiation.

[4] At the center of the facade, under the bell tower lies a sculpture depicting a goddess and two children and two lions.

The child on the left holds a long staff pointing at the female figure, while the boy on the right is stepping between two fierce lions.

The theme of this sculpture could be liberty as the woman is trying to escape from the mess and wild, with her eye looking up, fulfilled with hope and prospect.

The woman's posture of sitting on war remnants also symbolizes France's pride in past victories on the battlefields that have brought about the peace.

[4] The main entrance consists of five consecutive domes, decorated with floral reliefs and every of its gates are stylized iron doors.

Another side gate at the address 86B Le Thanh Ton is the entrance for the city's Home Affairs Department.

They now house the offices of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and Home Affairs Department.

[8] Upon opening, the City Hall waged irritation among indigenous citizens due to its high construction costs and design motifs.

The references to a superior French Republic carved in the exterior did not seem to convey their underlying meanings to a common Vietnamese citizen.