2002, Richter Architects. 9700 E. 1–40 at Juett Attebury Rd.
A dozen information centers, built by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) at the turn of the twenty-first century, are staffed facilities with travel information. The design of each center makes gestures to the cultural identity of its region—Spanish in Laredo and the Lower Rio Grande Valley and forest cabins in Orange. The Amarillo center, designed by a Corpus Christi firm, is the most regionally persuasive. The chiseled, abstract forms echo the broken rocks of the Cap Rock Escarpment, and the striated bands of earth-colored brick recall the vivid hues of the Palo Duro Canyon, making the center evocative without being trite.