Sorry there wasn’t much in the way of updates last week.  We were in the deep South on an architectural photography shoot.  As we’ve flogged before, architectural photography is our primary business here, so if you have a skyscraper, hotel, factory, lobby, office, wigwam, yurt,...

  Neighbors of Old Saint Patrick’s Church in the West Loop have been going ape over its plans to erect an office tower.  One of their biggest complaints has been potential light pollution.  It looks like the already rough relationship between OSP and The Edge is going to get...

The new cloister at Old Saint Patrick’s Church is progressing nicely.  The scaffolding and concrete barriers have come down. What used to be a metal fence has become a passageway between the church and the West Loop campus of Frances Xavier Warde School (120 South DesPlaines Street)....

Work has begun to add an elevator and a cloister to Old Saint Patrick’s Church (180 South DesPlaines Street) in the West Loop.  The elevator project will give people in wheelchairs reliable access to one of the city’s most historic churches, and the cloister will make a nice...