Coffee Architects - Specialty Coffee Roaster in Thalwil

Coffee Architects is a roastery in Thalwil, founded in 2023 by Dario Stoop and two friends. Stoop, its CEO, came to specialty coffee after a latte art drink at Z am Park in Zurich in 2010. He learned under Nina Rimpl at Milchbar, where he became head of coffee, worked at Auer & Co. and Kraftwerk in Zurich, and trained with Philipp Henauer before becoming roaster and quality manager at Henauer Coffee Roasters in 2018. In 2019 he won the Swiss Cup Tasting Championship and represented Switzerland at the world championship in Berlin. The roastery took third place at the Swiss Roasting Championship 2025/26.

The range is split into espresso and filter. Amizade, a natural from Minas Gerais, Aléro from Honduras, the Fusão blend of Brazilian and Honduran coffees and Ligéro, a decaf from Peru, are roasted for espresso. The filter coffees come from Rwanda and Kenya: Keza, a Red Bourbon from the Gasharu washing station, produced and processed by women and named after the Urugori crown, a symbol of motherhood and respect, and Tamu, an AA lot from the Ngonyi factory in Meru. Each single-origin bag carries the producer, variety, process and altitude, and each comes with its SCA score.

Its coffee is poured at partner cafés and bakeries, among them Auer & Co., Kraftwerk, Bros Beans & Beats, C.R.E.A.M., Baer St. Bakery and the Novu Campus in Zurich, the three DRAFT. Coffee bars in Zurich, Basel and Bern, and Caffè NoName and Snake Bar in Laax. 169 West in Zurich has poured its filter coffees.