A New Sense of Place
URBAN DESIGN AND MIXED USE
Introduction
Unlocking Value in Underutilized Public Lands by David Tryba, FAIA
Fox Park
Vickery Village
Clayworks Master Plan
Denver Rock Drill
Denargo Market
A New Sense of Place by Kathleen Fogler, AIA
Clayton Lane at Cherry Creek North
Clearfork Trailhead Master Plan
I-14 Bentonville Master Plan
The District
CityCenter Englewood Mixed-Use Transit Station
Fitzsimons Innovation Community at CU Anschutz
University of Wisconsin Research Park DEN 50-Year Vision Denver Botanic Gardens Master Development Plan
TRYBA ARCHITECTS
Transforming Urban Places
Specializing in an integrated approach to design at all scales, from visionary master planning to crafting the essential workplace, the work of Tryba Architects integrates contextual, iconic and sustainable design that promotes health, wellness and connection, and enriches the built and natural environments.
Through our principle-driven design approach, we build consensus around a set of guiding principles which address the fundamentals of architecture and placemaking with multivalent project-specific responses. Highly diverse in form, typology and scale, our work is united by craft, elegance, rigor and civic impact.
URBAN DESIGN AND MIXED USE
Unlocking Value through Placemaking
Successful places balance natural resources, transportation, landscape and sustainable urban growth with the economic opportunities of the marketplace.
Collaborating with a broad range of private clients and community partners, we design elegantly practical and cohesive master plans that create value and place, and are highly responsive to their natural and urban context.
Our goal in each project is to realize the inherent potential of a site, connect with the community and create an enhanced sense of place.
Underutilized public lands transformed through reconfiguration of Speer Boulevard and leveraging the natural amenity
Unlocking Value in Underutilized Public Lands
A NEW VISION FOR SPEER BOULEVARD
David Tryba, FAIA Principal and Founder, Tryba Architects
of Cherry Creek.
A bold new idea is emerging that offers Denver the opportunity to generate new, long-term revenue streams and proactively addresses our housing shortage and growing downtown vacancy rates. It may not seem obvious at first, but a key to vibrant, economically resilient cities is to fully leverage one of our most valuable assets, publicly owned land. Fully leveraging the inherent value embodied in our publicly owned real estate and infrastructure, we can continue Denver’s successful legacy of connecting people, institutions, culture, and businesses, creating new civic and economic value.
URBAN PUBLIC LANDS CONNECTED TO NATURE
People have always been drawn to the water. The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and 1859 Gold Rush settlers alike chose to establish their camps at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. Denver’s founders platted public and private lands at the confluence, laying the groundwork for the city’s growth and development.
Throughout the 19th Century, as Denver continued to expand, the citizens of Denver invested heavily in public infrastructure linking commercial, industrial and residential areas near the confluence in Lower Downtown, and across Cherry Creek to Auraria. During the early part of the 20th century, Denver became a model for “City Beautiful” infrastructure through public investment in our remarkable system of boulevards, parks and parkways that humanized our growing industrial city.
Over the past 50 years, Cherry Creek and the South Platte River have continued to define downtown’s growth and development. In the 1990s and 2000s, consolidation of rail lines initiated the transformation of the disconnected industrial area into what we now experience as
1859 Gold Rush settlements at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte. Published by Collier & Cleveland Litho Co., 1891
Denver’s vibrant Central Platte Valley. Through the visionary leadership of Mayors Peña, Webb and Hickenlooper, the city purchased warehouses and large tracts of industrial land along the Platte and transformed them into parks. Meanwhile, new housing and innovative commercial options and entertainment amenities took advantage of adjacency to the South Platte. The combined impact of the public investments to transform the Central Platte Valley resulted in the continuing surge of private investment, further connecting Denver’s urban core to the re-emerging historic neighborhoods across the river.
Now, Denver has the opportunity to re-apply a similar visionary approach to another underutilized waterway, re-imagining the publicly-owned land that currently bounds and separates the Auraria Higher Education Campus from Cherry Creek and downtown. After 50 years of neglect, reconnecting Auraria with the redeveloped waterfront offers students, faculty and downtown businesses a remarkable new opportunity for connected urban living and would catalyze CU Denver’s “Innovation District.”
OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGE PUBLIC LAND
94% of the 20-block area of Speer Boulevard separating the Auraria Campus from the waterfront and downtown illustrated above is publicly-owned real estate. Envisioning a repurposing of this fallow public land and its existing infrastructure has the opportunity to unlock a vital and longterm source of civic capital. New revenue from public lands enhances Denver’s ability to remain economically competitive, and reduce social and new infrastructure challenges without the need to raise taxes.
Auraria’s adjacency to the Cherry Creek greenway and downtown offers tremendous opportunity to engage in strategic publicprivate partnerships to attain a fully-connected urban innovation campus with quality design that attracts students and outside financial investors. Urban innovation campuses across the country, including Texas A&M Fort Worth, Arizona State University in Tempe, and Philadelphia’s multi-institution Innovation District have leveraged remarkably successful public-private partnerships that have accelerated development of urban
campuses within each of these downtown cores. In 2022 the University of Colorado Denver surveyed 350 higher education leaders from across the country, finding that 71% were exploring public-private partnerships with the goals of increasing investment capital and enhancing campus infrastructure.
The Colorado Legislature in 2022 created a statewide Public-Private Partnership (P3) Collaboration Unit. The following year, additional legislation was enacted to further empower the P3 unit to broker real-estate transactions between the State and private developers, with the goal of encouraging development to help offset the state’s immense housing shortage, one of the worst in the nation. Likewise, the City of Denver has implemented Executive Order 100A streamlining the leasing of city-owned property to non-city entities. Our state and city leaders acknowledge the cost of land is one of the most significant impediments to the creation of affordable housing. Working in partnership to re-think our publicly-held real estate provides innovative new options for building much-needed new housing in our city centers. Options include long-term ground leases, allowing a private investor to enjoy the rights of ownership in terms of flexibility to improve and build on the site.
The authors of the book The Public Wealth of Cities (2017) describe how leveraging public real estate assets offers “an indispensable tool for creating human and social value: innovation hubs instead of decaying city centers, a healthy mixture of high- and low-cost housing
instead of segregated communities, proximity to workplaces [and education] instead of long-haul commutes.” The ‘public wealth’ approach provides a tool for self-financing the social and community improvements that Denver is struggling to attain.
A NEW VISION FOR SPEER BOULEVARD
Currently, the bloated design for Speer Boulevard consumes one quarter of the 70-acre district envisioned for improvement. Nearly 600 feet wide in places, with up to eleven lanes of traffic, Speer creates a barrier between downtown and the campus, with awkward and hazardous pedestrian crossings.
Reconfiguring Speer Boulevard to the south of Cherry Creek would significantly improve the auto, transit and pedestrian experience of the street, create new developable land, and nearly double the existing park space along the creek. Aligning the interests of the City, the State and private development creates opportunities for up to 5,000 affordable and attainable housing units for students, faculty and their business and innovation partners, while physically re-connecting the entire Auraria Campus directly to the natural waterfront of Cherry Creek, and to downtown.
Developing a gradual and varying transition between Speer Boulevard and Cherry Creek allows the use of existing infrastructure, including all bridges, to re-create a natural connection between the Auraria Campus and the water’s edge. Refining Speer Boulevard in the legacy of Denver’s “City Beautiful” park and parkway system establishes a new, milelong linear park along Auraria’s northeastern perimeter from Colfax to the confluence.
The proposed vision would reduce lane width from 13-14’ to 11,’ narrowing the boulevard to improve accessibility by maintaining a calm and predictable flow of traffic at consistent and lower speeds. Cross-streets would be converted from one-way to two-way, enhancing Speer Boulevard’s ability to accommodate well over the current 50,000 car trips per day.
Concept rendering for the potential increased density along Speer Boulevard integrating CU Denver’s Open Innovation District. (Tryba Architects)
CONNECTING INSTITUTIONAL AND CORE URBAN ASSETS
The realignment of Speer Boulevard further creates new connectivity between downtown and the growing sports and entertainment district surrounding Ball Arena and in the planned River Mile District. What is today an isolated entertainment venue surrounded by surface parking is envisioned to become part of a vibrant, activated mixed-use urban environment.
East of the creek, the arts and cultural district’s public assets will also be remarkably enhanced by the proposed plan. Currently the Performing Arts Complex and Convention Center back up to Speer while the public lands along the creek are disconnected and ripe for meaningful activation. Reconfiguration of Speer unlocks developable land for a potential new 1,000-room Convention Center hotel, housing, and the creation of another unmistakably memorable outdoor amphitheater for Denver, directly connected to the Cherry Creek waterfront park.
CONCLUSION
Denver’s history has proven that boldly investing in our public infrastructure is key to our city’s success. During the past decade, we as a community have faltered in our previous commitment to creating and maintaining our quality public realm. Now is the time to re-establish the trajectory of earlier accomplishments toward imagining— and building—our great city. Effective stewardship of our publicly-held real estate can greatly enhance our ability to build our community, our wellbeing, our connectivity with nature—and with each other.
Reconfiguration of Speer Boulevard restores vital connectivity between Downtown, the performing arts and convention district, the Auraria Campus, Ball Arena, and the future River Mile development. (Tryba Architects)
Fox Park
Denver, CO
A new urban hilltop community integrating open space, culture and commerce
Iconic entry to Fox Park along Fox Street and 44th Avenue invites pedestrians and cyclists into a network of trails and open spaces, and welcomes drivers to below-grade parking.
FRAMEWORK
FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY
Fox Park is a new 41-acre urban landscape providing a diversity of experiences that fully immerse this new cityscape with nature.
A NEW CONNECTED URBAN HILLTOP PARK
Positioned at the intersection of I-25 and I-70, Fox Park will be a new gateway to the city and Rocky Mountain Region. A quarter mile from 41st and Fox Station, Fox Park is one stop away from Denver Union Station and the entire regional transportation network. Fourteen acres of interconnected parks and open space integrate culture, community and innovation to create unparalleled opportunities for growth.
CLIENT VITA
Pure Development
SIZE
41 acres
SCOPE OF WORK
Master Planning
Entitlements
Architecture
Experiential Design
Sunnyside Point
World Trade Center Complex
Hotel
COMPLETE MULTI-LEVEL INTEGRATION
Terraced into the hillside, a vertically integrated public realm consolidates parking and service below grade. This infrastructure reveals the ecology of Fox Park—water, energy and waste— making it legible to people of all ages.
Existing four-story Press Room vacant of newspaper printing equipment and activity. BEFORE
An open marketplace featuring craft maker retail, collaborative workspaces and office.
A NEW COMMUNITY CENTER
A cohesive urban landscape will bring together next-generation workspaces, a boutique hotel, retail and residential spaces and urban agriculture, creating a diverse community fueled by transformative industrial reclamation. At its heart, a vibrant new center will provide space for community learning, health and fitness, arts and entertainment, innovation and fabrication.
Fort Worth, TX
Vickery Village
A flexible framework for transformative urban infill
WILLIAMSON GREEN
PATTERN ALLEY
Vickery Village is central to the story of Fort Worth, where generations of men and women have built enduring communities around iconic global industry.
Located at the intersection of the city’s core highway and passenger rail infrastructure, Vickery Village is seamlessly connected to Downtown, the Near Southside’s Medical District, and neighboring Villages—a dynamic epicenter of economic growth.
BEFORE
PATTERN ALLEY
Pattern Alley stitches together the historic industrial heart of Vickery Village to create authentic new development opportunities for community gathering, hospitality, retail and creative office.
The 1924 Williamson-Dickie Bldg. Will be reimagined as an active new district hub.
BROADWAY PARK
A new centerpiece of the community, Broadway Park is a place for Fort Worth to gather and celebrate. Enduring landmarks anchor new multi-use public spaces for family life, marketplace, events and relaxation.
Transforming an urban heat island into a green oasis
WILLIAMSON GREEN
Students, residents, visitors and employees alike can enjoy new and enhanced park space designed to bring people together in connection with the natural environment.
Clayworks Master Plan
Golden, CO
A reimagined mixed-use district connected to the Colorado outdoors
Redevelopment of the former CoorsTek industrial site presents a significant opportunity to enhance the core of Golden with a catalytic mixed-use district of significant scale and quality. With a focus on sustainability, Clayworks will comprise both new-build and adaptive reuse components.
The site will be structured around a highquality public realm and designed to connect strongly to nature and the Golden context, while reflecting the civic legacy and values of the Coors family and their cluster of companies.
Clay kilns and other industrial features evoke the site's history.
CoorsTek's new global headquarters will be an anchor tenant within the mixed-use district. Building upon the site’s unique industrial character and history, the project will offer a dynamic new destination that complements Golden’s active outdoor lifestyle.
GOLDEN FREEWAY
WASHINGTON AVENUE
Environmental sustainability, biophilic design, and connections to trails will promote health and wellness.
10TH STREET
Clayworks will integrate multi-modal connectivity with spaces for innovation and discovery.
The new CoorsTek headquarters is thoughtfully integrated with the Golden landscape and incorporates a high level of sustainability measures.
The project integrates new structures with adaptive reuse of historic fabric, retaining a cultural memory of place for residents and employees and providing measurable benefits in embodied energy.
COORSTEK CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
CoorsTek’s global headquarters, currently located a few miles away, will return to the site with a new office building that features an iconic 65foot tower reminiscent of the company’s former “Silo” industrial building. The new headquarters will integrate the adaptive reuse of portions of historic buildings dating back to the early 1900s that will create an authentic connection to the heritage of innovation and industry on the site.
Denver
Denver, CO
Rock Drill
New life for a historically significant center of international industrial innovation
Tryba Architects is currently re-imagining this historic industrial site as a mixed-use community with contemporary workplaces, artists’ studios, apartments, hotel, condominiums, food and beverage production facilities, restaurants and retail.
CLIENT
Weiss Family
Saunders Development
SIZE
12 acres
SCOPE OF WORK
Architecture
Master Planning
Historic Preservation
Interior Design
Experiential Design
BEFORE
Denver Rock Drill is a collection of buildings linked by a series of lanes, rail spurs and courtyards.
This project provides the opportunity to retain and reactivate over 30 warehouse and manufacturing buildings that reflect the authentic industrial heritage of the RiNo district.
Interior lanes closed to public use.
Reconditioned lanes provide access to the center of the campus.
Large open plate space with sawtooth north lights provide a calm and consistent quality of indirect light.
With the opening of the RTD University of Colorado A Line linking Union Station and Denver International Airport, the site enjoys a new level of local, regional and international connectivity within Denver’s much heralded Corridor of Opportunity.
Mezzanine insertions and reconditioned interiors will serve as creative workplaces.
Connecting the neighborhood to the riverfront
Denargo Market
Denver, CO
Set along the South Platte River, Denargo Market is a 13-acre site envisioned to become an organic, connected and inclusive expansion of Denver’s urban fabric.
Tryba Architects is leading a new vision for the 13-acre site once occupied by the historic 1930s Denargo Market. This truly mixed-use site is positioned to take advantage of its prime frontage on the South Platte River and proximity to Union Station and Lower Downtown while building on the emerging creative economy of the RiNo Arts District.
Denargo Market will provide next generation workplace/office, residential, live-work and retail space for residents and tenants.
A variety of building typologies and a crafted public space network will reflect the industrial riverfront context and the character and grit of the adjacent arts districts. A considered and strategic approach to phasing will enable the site to grow as an organic, connected and active piece of the city’s urban fabric.
Riverfront Green is a flexible open space for the neighborhood with programmed events and areas for children, dogs, festivals and picnics.
A New Sense of Place
SUBURBAN INTENSIFICATION
Kathleen Fogler, AIA Principal, Tryba Architects
Aerial view of Fort Worth, Texas and the Vickery Village master plan development.
CU ANSCHUTZ INNOVATION COMMUNITY
The suburbs have long represented a series of contrasting relationships and desires. Familiar descriptive phrases include: “I love the space and affordability, but I wish I could walk to more places.” “I would like to have additional amenities, but don’t want to give up affordability, easy access to parking and no traffic.” “We want a more inclusive community, but we have limited room for growth and density.”
While over the last decade significant effort has focused on the revitalization of the downtown urban and industrial core, the demand for suburban intensification has been equally strong. This trend is counter to much recent urban theory which has largely focused on the rise of the downtown and has often dismissed the suburbs as a place of sprawl and anonymity. As a result, a false rivalry has arisen that pits the urban against the suburban. As a practice, we view suburban intensification as a significant opportunity for innovative regional urbanization and city building. A strong, vital and resilient city relies on the complex interactions between a dense and vibrant downtown and the housing, recreation and employment opportunities offered by the suburbs.
DEVELOPMENT IN NATURE
The global pandemic accelerated demands to merge urban and suburban qualities of life, furthering our desire to be connected to nature, reinforcing the necessity of social
The 125-acre master plan builds on historic view corridors and integrates existing trees and topography. (Tryba Architects) BEFORE
interactions and proving shared public and civic experiences are vital to our culture and sense of identity. Simultaneously, trends toward remote workplace, just-in-time delivery and experience-driven retail have rapidly changed the economic structure and footprint of our commercial landscape. As a result we have arrived at a unique moment where the economy, technology, social desires and public health and safety are converging, galvanizing the demand for civic urban placemaking in areas outside the downtown core.
While it’s easy to dismiss the possibility for change in the suburbs, it’s important to consider where we are in the broad picture of growth and development. Two hundred years ago, downtowns were transient with limited civic infrastructure, often set up as industrial settlements along rivers and railroads. By the turn of the century, parks and parkways had become the foundation of civic urbanism and represented a desire to “Beautify the City” and improve the quality of life and public health. Central Park, Boston Common and Washington Park are enduring places of civic infrastructure and have created lasting value for their communities.
A critical new focus for city builders is refining and evolving suburban locations to offer an improved sense of place and identity while enhancing connectivity and providing a clear focus on social, environmental and economic sustainability.
American cities are comprised of mid- to low-density suburban neighborhoods that hold a high percentage of the residential population and an increasing percentage of the employment base. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 32 percent of U.S. employment is in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas—that is, in the medium- and lower-density counties of metropolitan areas that contain at least 1 million people. Around 32 percent of the population also lives in the suburbs of these metros. Nationwide, 52 percent of the population identifies their homes as suburban.
Developers across the Front Range understand that while Denver’s downtown has thrived, the largest regional employment center is still Southeast Denver. According to the organization Denver South, the region is home to nine Fortune 1,000 headquarters and six Fortune 500 companies and has an employment base of nearly 240,000 workers representing over 14 percent of total Metro Denver employment, compared to the 145,000 people working in Downtown
Denver in 2019. As a result, we continue to see tremendous growth and demand for suburban intensification in not only the Denver Tech Center, Centennial, RidgeGate, Lone Tree, but also throughout the emerging Denver-Boulder technology corridor, and around the CU Anschutz Innovation Campus.
As people demand both space and urban amenities, the suburbs are poised for accelerated transformation from an underutilized, haphazard landscape to a unique, expansive format for civic suburban infill and intensification that is not beholden to a traditional downtown skyline or rigid Euclidian street grid. The structure of suburban fabric is more fluid, curvaceous and often aligned to natural topography. If American urbanism was an exploration of standardization and order, most suburban contexts are formed of winding curves, sweeping roads and buildings that are isolated objects in the landscape. Properties function more individually than with a collective accountability to a broader urban structure. How can we incorporate the
THE DISTRICT
A 36-acre urban node defined by high-quality, active pedestrian streets, diverse amenities, inviting open spaces and stunning mountain views.
(Tryba Architects)
best of urban principles into the suburbs, bringing connectivity, order and legibility to these places? What are our best tools for design? How do we test market parameters and embrace new market demands?
As a practice, our suburban development drivers continue to be the fundamental principles of connecting people and place, integrating nature and open space and responding with careful and focused intent to market economics. Our work is providing stronger multi-modal access and connectivity within the suburbs and across our growing metropolitan regions; building well-connected open spaces for the community; creating authentic walkable mixed-use places; and embracing public-private partnerships to propel public improvement and civic infrastructure.
MIXED-USE CLUSTERS
It will take time for the suburbs to sustain larger swaths of mixed-use development, however, starting with smaller mixed-use clusters will allow for new patterns of growth
and provide options for a more walkable and convenient quality of life. The pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated this transition, and the suburbs—with an excess of space devoted to parking, large format retail and commercial logistics—will increasingly have space for infill in close proximity to well-established suburban neighborhoods, school districts, parks and open space.
The suburbs’ competitive advantage is not to mimic the urban core, but to maintain personal space and connection to the environment, while also providing more convenient, better connected and denser hubs—where retail, office and residential converge around meaningful public spaces and well organized streets, open spaces and trail networks.
CIRCULATION THROUGH LANDSCAPE
Landscape is often the most underutilized and poorly considered aspect of the suburban commercial landscape, and yet it provides the greatest opportunity for placemaking. The most memorable urban and suburban
VICKERY VILLAGE
Pattern Alley stitches together the historic industrial heart of Vickery Village to create authentic new development opportunities for community gathering, hospitality, retail and creative office.
(Tryba Architects)
4 Mixed Use Innovation Campus Infill
Increase density with a new diversity of uses to to create a vibrant central neighborhood
3 Enhanced Wisconsin Open Space Network
Integrate existing open spaces, topography, meadows, and views with an extensive new commitment to landscape
2 Enhanced Connectivity
Develop a regional mobility hub that connects to the existing campus street grid and trail network
1 Existing University Research Park Natural Topography and Landscape
THE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARK
7.4 acre mixed-use suburban infill development integrating existing topography and landscape with office buildings and walkable streets. New infill development includes 200 residential units, 30,000 sf retail and a 120,000 sf lab building. (Tryba Architects)
BELLEVIEW STATION
3.2 acre mixeduse cluster creates a new mixed-use center within the 40-acre Belleview Station masterplanned development in South Denver. (Tryba Architects)
parks have contextual specificity, whether they are organized around a river (Clear Creek in Golden and Confluence Park in Denver) or located to emphasize views (Washington and Cheesman Parks in Denver). Historically, Capitol buildings were located on high ground to signify the importance of government. The organization of key elements—circulation, open space and program—to work in concert with the environment creates order and meaning, establishing the structure for a unique sense of place tied to landscape.
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
As economic and social forces drive fundamental change in the suburban landscape, the role of City officials in listening and guiding communities towards growth and facilitating partnerships between public and private sectors is essential for all types of development.
A collaborative ethos is inherent in projects related to educational and research institutions whose missions are often based on cross disciplinary innovation and building
strong partnerships. Similar principles must be embraced for traditional mixeduse and residential developments to enable thoughtful design and execution, guide collaboration with the community and ensure development reaches its highest potential.
We are eager to continue shaping civic suburban environments and to propel a new generation of urbanism that reflects the environmental, social and economic values necessary in our world today. The potential is unlimited—over the next decade we imagine the suburbs as the site for an explosion of innovation and a model for new typologies of urban form: generous private and public spaces for recreation and gathering, strong connections to the landscape, sustainable and efficient infrastructure, easy access, affordability and opportunities for shared civic experiences. We are energized by the possibilities and honored to participate in this critical moment with our clients and development partners.
Clayton Lane
Denver, CO
Superblock transformed into Denver’s preeminent live-work-play neighborhood
Tryba Architects partnered with Nichols Partnership to redevelop 9.5 acres into Clayton Lane, Denver’s premier mixed-use development. Clayton Lane was the last large parcel to be developed in land-constrained Cherry Creek North. The development’s transformation from suburban to an active, vibrant live-work-play neighborhood sets the standard for mixed-use urban infill.
CLIENT Nichols Partnership
SCOPE OF WORK
Architecture
Master Planning
Entitlements
CLAYTON LANE
The unifying strength and hallmark of the development is high visibility retail spaces throughout every building, anchored by a new private street, Clayton Lane.
Reintroducing the street grid was catalytic to this human-scaled development in Denver’s iconic Cherry Creek North. Active retail facades, broad, detailed sidewalks and street furniture invite shoppers and strollers to enjoy Clayton Lane.
The design palette features a variety of materials and textures—brick, limestone, zinc panels, chrome and wood. Thoughtful massing and detailed fenestration optimize interior light within the Tryba-designed structures while street level details beckon visitors and residents.
Broad sidewalks and street furniture invite shoppers and strollers to enjoy Clayton Lane.
Pedestrian-friendly sidewalks and dynamic storefronts support over 340,000 SF of street-level retail.
SIZE 9 acres
SCOPE OF WORK
Lead Design Architect
Architect of Record
Urban Design
WEST CLAYTON LANE
West Clayton Lane expands on the success of the original Clayton Lane redevelopment completed in 2004, the city’s first sophisticated, highdensity mixed use development. The next phase of the project includes redevelopment of an obsolete 1950s former Sears store, loading docks and parking garage, which will be reimagined as a highly refined, fully integrated and intimately crafted new neighbor for Clayton Lane.
The existing alley will be transformed from its current state as an informal service space.
A refined and vibrant mixed-use community featuring a network of enlivened outdoor spaces.
The open-air ‘Paseo’ is a new pedestrian retail lane that contributes to the walkability and enjoyment of the district.
The ‘Paseo’
restaurants and retail with unique outdoor dining and gathering spaces.
interweaves
Clearfork Trailhead
Fort Worth, TX
Master plan for mixed-use corporate campus along Trinity River
The Master Plan and future office space connect with Clearfork’s sustainable ethos and relaxed river setting, exemplified by the success of the Press Cafe.
Tryba Architects developed the master plan for Clearfork’s 31-acre Trailhead district that established the tone for the design and experience of place and draw corporate users to the site.
The district will set a new vision for development at Clearfork that both complements the existing mixed-use context and provides a differentiated offer for tenants, residents and visitors. This will be a place tied to the River and to the history of Edwards Ranch, with a future-focused work environment that celebrates nature and landscape.
CLIENT
Cassco/KDC
SIZE
31 acres
SCOPE OF WORK
Architecture
Urban Design
Entitlements
Interior Design
Experiential Design
FF&E
Exposed ‘heavy timber’ and structural steel hybrid system
Crafted brick facade
The new corporate headquarters building will establish a new gateway from the Trinity River Trail adjacent to the Press Cafe.
Reinvent the industrial landscape
The I-14 mixed-use development will provide a unique urban experience merging the built and natural environments and set a new neighborhood precedent for Bentonville’s emerging Pattern District. A shared public realm will create a legible network of community spaces for meaningful experiences that reflect the diverse environmental, social and economic values of the community. These spaces and experiences will be the foundation of a resilient and enduring community directly engaged with the natural environment.
OSAGE PARK
LittleOsageCreek
Multi-Use Path to Thaden Fieldhouse
A resilient building crafted to connect people to the natural environment and ecology of Little Osage Creek.
A human-scaled new workplace is a key feature of the district’s walkable, uplifting mixed-use environment.
I-14 OFFICE CAMPUS
With a prime location near Bentonville Municipal Airport, Osage Park, and new retail amenities, the new office campus is envisioned as a center for innovation and entrepreneurship deeply connected to the natural environment. The inviting, human scale of the buildings responds to the wetlands and gently rolling topography surrounding the site. Bike trails and Little Osage Creek provide opportunities for employees and visitors to experience the inspiration of nature.
CLIENT Green Circle Projects
SIZE
29 acres
SCOPE OF WORK
Concept Visioning Master Planning
The Office Campus is a comfortable, sophisticated and collaborative workplace integrating local landscape and materials.
The District Centennial, CO
A distinct 36-acre urban node connected by transit
Directly connected to Dry Creek Station on the north, and extending to County Line on the south, a carefully detailed promenade street will become a linear hub of activity for the community.
CLIENT Brue Baukol
Capital
SIZE
36 acres
Partners
SCOPE OF WORK
Urban Design
Entitlements
Public Outreach
Branding
The District is a highly visible and well-connected 36-acre site located at the Dry Creek Light Rail Station. A distinct urban node, it is defined by high-quality, active pedestrian streets, diverse amenities, inviting open spaces and stunning mountain views. A variety of commercial and residential developments will enjoy a dynamic urban environment and flexible building opportunities.
CityCenter Englewood Mixed-Use Transit Station
Englewood, CO
Suburban mall reimagined as mixed-use civic and transit hub
Englewood Station
City of Englewood
144,000 SF Civic Center Complex
Tryba Architects transformed the abandoned, 55 acre, 1960’s Cinderella City Mall—South Santa Fe Drive & Hampden Avenue—into the Region’s first mixed-use transit development. Tryba worked with RTD, the city and neighborhood groups to create and entitle the Master Plan.
Tryba also designed several other structures: the iconic 110-foot steel truss bridge and amphitheatre, repurposed the former Foley’s department store housing Englewood’s municipal offices, courts, council chambers, public library and Museum of Outdoor Arts and new, 280-vehicle parking garage among them.
The abandoned 55 acre Cinderella City Mall, built in the 1960’s
Tryba worked with RTD, the city and neighborhood groups to create and entitle the Region’s first mixed-use transit development
Englewood Station
A 110-foot steel truss bridge provides an iconic connection to the RTD rail platform
RTD’s Englewood Station rail platform
Horizon by Amy Laugesen, 2001 featured as part of the Museum of Outdoor Arts
Fitzsimons Innovation Community at CU Anschutz
A fully-integrated campus community designed for collaboration and innovation
Integrating new vertical construction with existing topography creates a multifaceted urban environment connected to the Western landscape.
Increase density and a create a vibrant central neighborhood
4 Open Space Network
Integrate existing open spaces, topography, trees and panoramic views with extensive new landscape 5 Mixed Use Innovation Campus
3 Integrated Urban Campus
Connect the city’s diverse edges and neighborhoods
2 Enhanced Connectivity
Create a regional mobility hub that connects to the existing campus street grid
1 Existing Western Topography and Landscape
Tryba Architects is actively advancing the development of the 125-acre Fitzsimons Innovation Community at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus —a destination for world-class healthcare.
As a national training hub, more than 3,000 surgeons travel here annually for research, collaboration and training. An incubator and economic development driver for the region, over 80 start-up and established life science companies call the campus home.
BEFORE
CLIENT
City of Aurora
Fitzsimons
Redevelopment
Authority
Aimco
SIZE
125 acres
SCOPE OF WORK
Urban Design
Master Planning
Architecture
Interior Design
Experiential Design
Deeply rooted to place, the plan is designed to connect with the existing Western landscape.
Transforming a former golf course, the master plan builds on its character by integrating existing trees and topography and using the urban skyline to frame panoramic views.
UVALDA EXPANSION
MONTVIEWBLVD
BUILDING
HEALTH SCIENCES
LIBRARY
500 MEDICINE
BUILDING
RESEARCH QUAD
UCHEALTH
ACADEMIC QUAD
ART WALK
CHILDREN’SHOSPITAL
CHILDREN'S GARDEN
COLFAXAVE
Existing Patient Care
Existing Commercial Innovation
Existing Housing, Hotels & Amenity
Education & Research
Among the nation’s largest and most ambitious Innovation Districts
DOWNTOWN
BIOSCIENCE 3 2019
BIOSCIENCE 5 2022
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 2010
BIOSCIENCE 1 2000
BIOSCIENCE 2 2015
HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY 2007
21 FITZSIMONS REDEVELOPED 2017
THE BENSON HOTEL AND FACULTY CLUB 2023
COMPOSITIVE PRIMARY 2020
THE FREMONT 2020
Central Green introduces restorative nature to the vibrant and forward-thinking Fitzsimons Innovation Community at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
CENTRAL GREEN
The Central Green is a signature outdoor space designed for a variety of events and activities ranging from food trucks, movie nights, yoga or spin classes, holiday festivities and other local events. The activities bring life to the Central Green, designating it as an outdoor destination for the CU Anschutz Medical Community.
Central Green is equipped with infrastructure and technology to host a variety of events, large and small, year-round.
The Benson Hotel and Faculty Club is the heart of the campus, offering a central location for networking and collaboration.
COMMERCE AND AMENITY
EDUCATION, PATIENT CARE, RESEARCH
THE BENSON HOTEL AND FACULTY CLUB
The Benson Hotel and Faculty Club is the center of hospitality at the nationally-recognized University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and is designed to accommodate the needs of the hospitals and CU by offering high-quality meeting facilities, fullservice lodging and a center of social activity.
CLIENT Aimco
SCOPE OF WORK
Architecture
Interior Design
A new market, retail, Central Green and faculty club/ hotel actively support the CU Anschutz Medical and Innovation Campus by providing a central location for faculty, staff and visitors to network and connect.
The hotel supports the full spectrum of activities on campus through dedicated spaces for collaboration and innovation, connection and leisure, celebration and recognition—a venue for promoting campus achievements, showcasing and honoring award-winning faculty, and carrying forward a longstanding tradition of excellence in research, education and patient care.
The Ballroom provides an inspiring gathering and event space.
The seasonally dynamic occulus marks the intersection of aspiration and innovation.
The inviting warmth and inspiring art of the Apothecary Bar creates a central place for social connection.
The Faculty Club and Terrace are places for collaboration, connection and celebration.
The restaurant and bar are places to convene with colleagues to celebrate today’s success and collaborate on tomorrow’s innovations. The hotel’s location at the epicenter of the worldclass health innovation community also offers guests of the hotel access to a range of neighborhood amenities including the adjacent Central Green, restaurant plaza and fitness center.
Integrating community placemaking and structured parking
CLIENT Aimco
SIZE
2.0 acres
253 units
225 parking spaces
360,600 SF
SCOPE OF WORK
Architecture
Interior Design
Experiential Design
THE FREMONT RESIDENCES
Named for one of the American West’s great explorers, The Fremont Residences is a 253unit apartment community both grounded in history and focused on the future.
The Fremont directly serves the innovation district by providing convenient living space for students, faculty and clinical staff. The walkable, amenitized community includes a 225-space parking structure concealed beneath a garden courtyard.
Amenities are located above the concealed parking structure
University of Wisconsin Research Park
Madison, WI
Transforming a suburban research park into a walkable, active and vibrant neighborhood
MINERAL POINT ROAD
PHASE 1
Established in 1984, the University Research Park (URP) is an internationally recognized research and technology center located in Madison, Wisconsin.
PHASE 2, 3, AND 4
The URP is currently embarking on a course to transform the research campus into a walkable, active and vibrant neighborhood. This work includes a masterplan vision of 100 acres.
CLIENT University
Research Park
Mandel Group
SIZE
100 acre Master Plan
7.4 acre Mixed-Use
Development
SCOPE OF WORK
Master Planning
Entitlements
Architecture
The urbanized mixed-use development incorporates a variety of uses including lab/office spaces, hospitality, retail, residential and daycare. With approximately 40 feet of grade change, structured parking is integrated into the topography to allow for a more dynamic, pedestrian-friendly streetscape.
COMMERCE CITY
ADAMS COUNTY
The vision for North America’s largest airport
Colorado’s biggest economic engine, DEN is the jewel of the U.S. Aviation Network—the largest and most efficient airport in the country with a 53-square mile footprint, 12 runways and 9,000 acres of developable land. The 50-Year Vision and Framework Plan focuses on growth, economic development and establishing the airport as a premier multi-modal hub—a center for international travel and commerce, innovation and culture.
Piccadilly
A thoughtful balance of development and landscape preserves open space, creates value and results in a connected, sustainable and engaging place.
SCOPE OF WORK
Master Planning
Nodal development at strategic locations integrates landscape and infrastructure, optimizes existing and future utility infrastructure and creates a sustainable approach to development. By focusing on developing in a manner that is innovative, efficient and resilient, the Vision and Framework Plan concentrates growth and limits sprawl while connecting local communities with each other and the world.
Denver Botanic Gardens Master Development Plan
Denver, CO
North America’s most visited public garden
Principle-based
CLIENT
Denver Botanic Gardens
SIZE
180,000 SF
316 Structured
Parking Stalls
SCOPE OF WORK
Architect of Record
Master Planning
Interior Design
Entitlements
Tryba Architects led the 5-year, multi-volume Master Development Plan to guide the Redevelopment of the Denver Botanic Gardens’ 36-acre York Street Campus. The effort included a vision-based 50-year Framework Plan, a thorough Program and Facility Assessment and Master Development Plan, addressing every element of the campus from program, architecture and horticulture to infrastructure.
Major construction transforms Marnie’s Pavilion.
The comprehensive planning process was the blueprint for the Gardens’ successful Denver bond initiative and private fundraising. Working with trustees, staff, funders and diverse stakeholders, the firm designed several new structures, repairs, renovations, infrastructure upgrades and horticultural enhancements.
MARNIE’S PAVILION AND GREENHOUSES
Marnie’s Pavilion is a two-story indoor garden featuring a rotating display of tropical plant collections from around the globe.
Before
After:
and
Marnie’s Pavilion revitalized with new transparency and openness.
partnered with botanists and nationally renowned exhibit designers throughout the project.
Tryba
BONFILS-STANTON VISITOR CENTER
The entry to America’s most visited Botanic Garden—an inspirational gateway that connects visitors with nature. The 5,000 SF entry pavilion defers to the Gardens’ mid-century aesthetic.
A specific response to Colorado's intense sun, facade detailing controls and modulates light.
Largest green roof in Colorado at 1.2 acres
PARKING STRUCTURE AND MORDECAI CHILDREN’S GARDEN
The 1.2-acre Mordecai Children’s Garden—the largest green roof in Colorado—is layered above a new 325-car structured parking facility. The three-level garage is nestled into the landscape, clad in grating that supports vines and espaliered trees. Two underground levels open to an atrium with a series of gardens, creating a natural and memorable arrival and departure for visitors.
The most visited Botanic Gardens in the nation, with over 1.3 million visitors annually.
Firm Awards
Tryba Architects’ work has been nationally recognized for transforming urban sites, buildings and interiors into fully integrated, vibrant and timeless places.
AIA National Architecture Award
GoSpotCheck Headquarters
Award of Merit, AIA Colorado
Speer Boulevard Vision
Green Good Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum
Google Boulder Campus
Green Good Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum
Fox Park
Bronze Medal, Urban Design,
World Architecture News
Fox Park
ULI Global Award for Excellence
Denver Union Station
25-Year Award, AIA Western
Mountain Region
Mercantile Square
Award of Merit, Planning and Urban Design, AIA Colorado
DEN 50-Year Vision
Honor Award, AIA Denver
Denver Botanic Gardens
Development of the Year, NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association
Clayton Lane
American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum
The Glass Lab, Portland, OR
American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum
GoSpotCheck Headquarters
World’s Best Business Hotel Travel + Leisure Magazine
Hotel Teatro
Firm of the Year,
AIA Western Mountain
Tryba Architects Firm of the Year, IIDA Rocky Mountain Chapter
Tryba Architects
Best of Practice Award, Architect’s Newspaper
Tryba Architects
Architect of the Year, AIA Colorado
David Tryba, FAIA
Architect of the Year, AIA Colorado
Bill Moon, AIA
Leadership Impact Award, Downtown Denver Partnership
David Tryba, FAIA
National Award of Economic Development Excellence, US Department of Commerce
CityCenter Englewood
Workplace Merit Award, IIDA
Rocky Mountain Chapter
BCG Denver Office
Best on a Budget, IIDA
Rocky Mountain Chapter
GoSpotCheck Headquarters
Honor Award, AIA Colorado
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Design Excellence, AIA Colorado
History Colorado Center
Honor Award, AIA Colorado
Clayton Lane Honor Award, AIA Denver
Mercantile Square
Design Excellence, AIA Denver
Tryba Architects Studio
