Arapaho Center Station uses landscaping and the play of multi-colored uplighting at night to emphasize the station entrance. Station design team artist Benito Huerta has created a walkway of colored paving stones with icons representing he history of Richardson. Hans Van de Bovenkamp's sculpture, called "Gateway," is a three-dimensional ring made from aluminum and painted red to symbolize a bright window. The station's canopy has a copper finish like the nearby transit center (formerly known as Richardson Transit Center), to which it is linked by a pedestrian underpass.