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In his will, Paul Rudolph gave his Architectural Archives (including drawings, plans, renderings, blueprints, models and other materials prepared in connection with his professional practice of architecture) to the Library of Congress Trust Fund following his death in 1997. A Stipulation of Settlement, signed on June 6, 2001 between the Paul Rudolph Estate and the Library of Congress Trust Fund, resulted in the transfer of those items to the Library of Congress among the Architectural Archives, that the Library of Congress determined suitable for its collections. The intellectual property rights of items transferred to the Library of Congress are in the public domain. The usage of the Paul M. Rudolph Archive at the Library of Congress and any intellectual property rights are governed by the Library of Congress Rights and Permissions.

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LOCATION
Address: 1 Broadcast Center
City: Amarillo
State: Texas
Zip Code: 79101
Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Culture
Status: Built

TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1980
Site Area: 122,451 s.f.
Floor Area: 17,735 s.f.
Height:
Floors (Above Ground): 1
Building Cost:

PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Client: Stanley Marsh III
Architect: Paul Rudolph
Associate Architect:
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SUPPLIERS
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Television Station

The client is Stanley Marsh III, a local entrepreneur in Amarillo, Texas. He bought the local television station in 1967. He meets Rudolph while Rudolph is in Amarillo, Texas for the earlier 1978 Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center. He commissions Rudolph to design an office for him on the 12th Floor of the Chase Tower, 600 South Tyler Street in Amarillo.
Mr. Marsh, impressed by Rudolph’s design for his office, later commissions Rudolph to design a new and larger for his Channel Seven Television Station in Amarillo.
Rudolph’s design is for a square broadcast facility covered in a pyramidal mesh “shroud” that will be illuminated at night. This canopy is also designed to direct natural light into the interior and shade the building against the Texas sun.
The facility includes a central studio, newsroom, offices, conference room, and production, maintenance and storage areas.
Construction begins in 1983 and finishes in 1984.
The employees refer to the building as the ‘pyramid of power’.
Stanley Marsh III sells the television station in 2002.
In 2012 the facility is renamed the ‘Canady Broadcast Center’ in honor of Bill Canady, the company’s Chief Engineer who retires that year.