Tryba Architects

Tryba Architects is a Denver design firm that David Tryba launched in 1988. From its office on Logan Street it offers architecture, urban design, interior design and branding and experiential work, along with planning and historic preservation. Its portfolio mixes corporate headquarters, campuses, mixed-use offices, urban housing, lobby renovations and smaller civic pieces such as trailheads. Tryba designed The Pottery, the first finished building at Clayworks, the Coors family’s redevelopment of the old CoorsTek ceramics plant in downtown Golden. The four-story, 188,600-square-foot adaptive reuse project now houses CoorsTek’s global headquarters, with Holder Construction as builder, and tenants finished moving in during October 2026. AIA Colorado lists the firm at more than 50 people.

The firm describes its team as architects, urban designers, interior designers, branding specialists and financial strategists working as one integrated group. The inclusion of financial strategists is not decoration: entitlements, financial analysis, investment partnership, workplace consultancy, owner representation and development services all appear on the expertise list alongside the design disciplines. That makes the practice usable earlier in a project, when the question is still whether a site works at all.

The portfolio shows the range of that approach. Corporate headquarters work includes the Western Stock Show Association Legacy Building, Clayworks Building B3, BPX Energy Headquarters at 1700 Platte, and the GoSpotCheck headquarters, which won a national AIA Architecture Award. Campus work includes the Google Boulder Campus. Mixed-use and urban housing includes Cherry Lane in Cherry Creek North, Paradigm River North, and The Draper on a historic main street. Outside Colorado there is BCG Detroit for Boston Consulting Group, Clearfork Trailhead on a Texas riverfront, and Firestone & Robertson Whiskey Ranch.

Smaller civic pieces sit in the same portfolio as the headquarters buildings, including a lobby renovation at 1900 Sixteenth Street and a trailhead. The firm’s stated interest is in transforming buildings and sites into places that connect people, nature and the urban environment, with an explicit emphasis on building on the past rather than clearing it.

Leadership has been moving: four associate principals were promoted in April 2026, and Brent Bartels was promoted to principal in January 2026.

The office is at 1620 Logan Street, Denver, on 303.831.4010. New business and press enquiries go to marketing@trybaarchitects.com.