The Edinburgh City Chambers is the historic headquarters and main meeting place of the City of Edinburgh Council, located on the Royal Mile in the Old Town.
 
The City Chambers occupies the former Royal Exchange, a grand Georgian building originally designed by John Adam (brother of Robert Adam) between 1753 and 1761 as a covered trading hall for merchants, replacing the traditional meeting point at the Mercat Cross.  It is now a Category‑A listed building used as the seat of local government and as an events and conference venue.
 
The building stands at 253 High Street (EH1 1YJ), just opposite St Giles’ Cathedral and the Mercat Cross, deep in the heart of Edinburgh’s UNESCO World Heritage Old Town.  Its monumental neoclassical façade seen above features a colonnade of seven large arches, a central frieze, and an elevated balcony above, leading into a spacious courtyard that frames the main council block. The statue also shown above is Alexander the Great taming his horse Bucephalus, often called “Alexander and Bucephalus”.
 
Interesting facts...
Locals sometimes joke that it looks more like a medieval knight giving a parking ticket, earning it the nickname “Alexander the traffic‑warden”.