T3 RiNo: Mass Timber Office Advances Denver's Low-Carbon Workplace Design
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Rising in Denver’s River North Art District, T3 RiNo brings mass timber construction to scale while redefining the modern office as an experience-driven workplace.
ProjectsMountain States & Southwest Construction NewsBest Projects2025 Best of the Best Winners T3 RiNo: Mass Timber Office Advances Denver's Low-Carbon Workplace Design By Bryan Gottlieb Photo by Brad Nicol March 13, 2026 T3 RiNo Denver Office/Retail/Mixed-Use Submitted by: Pickard Chilton Region: ENR Mountain States Owner: Hines Lead Design Firm: Pickard Chilton General Contractor: Whiting-Turner Civil Engineer: S.A. Miro Structural Engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates MEP Engineer: Alvine Engineering Architect-of-Record: DLR Group Rising in Denver’s River North Art District, T3 RiNo brings mass timber construction to scale while redefining the modern office as an experience-driven workplace. Developed by Hines with partners McCaffery and Ivanhoe Cambridge, the $86-million project delivers 239,000 sq ft of office and 17,000 sq ft of retail in a six-story building. Completed in January 2025, the structure is Denver’s first permitted Type IV-HT mass-timber office building. The exposed timber structure—comprising glulam columns and beams supporting cross-laminated timber floor panels topped with a concrete slab—anchors the building’s architectural expression while reducing embodied carbon. The structure contains about 188,000 cu ft of mass timber, sequestering more than 4,100 metric tons of C02 and cutting embodied carbon roughly 38% compared with conventional construction. T3 RiNo in Denver features a six-story mass-timber structure with exposed glulam beams and cross-...
