Oakbrook Fertility Laboratory



This is where
the magic happens.

Koko Taylor's Celebrity


Koko Taylor, Queen of the Blues.

Koko Taylor hired TR Knapp Architects to design a new Night Club in Chicago's South Loop. The club opened its doors in 1999 and operated for just over two years before Koko moved her operations to the new Riverboat Casino.

Koko Taylor died recently, in 2009.
We will miss her.

Villa Park Community Development Offices


The Village of Villa Park hired TR Knapp Architects to convert an abandoned Fire House into their new community development offices.

The design and construction documents are complete and the project is waiting for funding
from the Village.

Village Crossing


TR Knapp Architects provided design consulting and construction documents for Multi-Family Housing in Roselle, Illinois.

Dr. Dan Coffey



A chiropractor.

Dr. Jennifer Fei


Here is the Lobby of a Dentist Office in Oak Park.

Janke Construction Co.

This is a New Construction Development at Roselle and Irving Park Roads. A mixed use facility, with ground floor retail, second floor residential units and a stand alone bank facility.

TR Knapp Architects provided Design Consulting and Construction Documentation for the building.

Construction broke ground in March of 2010.

Dupage County Forest Preserve


The main Board Room for the Dupage County Forest Preserve at Danada in Wheaton.

Dupage County Forest Preserve


The main Board Room for the Dupage County Forest Preserve at Danada in Wheaton.

Forest Preserve District of Dupage County

We provided design consulting for the Dupage County Forest Preserve Headquarters at Danada in Wheaton.

King Bruwaert House Theater


We did a small performance Theater.
Historic Preservation.

Union League Club of Chicago


A general View of the Lobby

Union League Club of Chicago


Before and Afters......

Union League Club of Chicago


Here is the Shower Area.

Union League Club of Chicago


A nice Detail Shot.

Union League Club of Chicago


This photo is taken from the same angle as the rendering below.

Union League Club of Chicago



Here is a nice photo, in the dark.

Union League Club of Chicago - Lobby Rendering


From the elevator Lobby, looking in.

ULCC - Rendering


Here is a rendering of the Lobby Areas -
You can see - It very closely resembles what was built.

Battlestations 21


If you look closely, you will see that this port on a commissioned battle ship is named after Roxanne Knapp - Honorary Lieutenant in the US Navy.

Oakbrook Mall


Here is a proposal we did for new vertical circulation, including elevator and escalator, at Oakbrook Mall. The project was never realized.

Oakbrook Mall


Here is a proposal we did for new vertical circulation, including elevator and escalator, at Oakbrook Mall. The project was never realized.

Union League Club of Chicago


This is the Employee Locker Rooms.
Completed in 2008.

Here is a rendering of the Executive Locker Rooms for the Union League Club Staff. The 5,000 sf locker room facility got an entirely new facelift after 100 years of neglect.

KB House Theater


We did a full restoration of this House Theater which seats 75. The performance stage, built 75 years ago has now been fitted with a full state of the art media system with projection screen and sound system. All the theater chairs were restored using the original art deco detailing with new cusions and back rests. Hopefully we will have better photographs of the finished project soon.

KB House Theater


This is the lobby for a small theater which is a lounge area with an art gallery. Photos of the Theater to follow. We did the architecture and interior design for the new lounge areas as well as the restoration of the theater.

Traffic Control, Inc.


We did a 40,000 sf commercial interior in Woodridge that included two exectutive conference room and a large training room that seats 50.

1017 W. Washington - Chicago, IL


65 Units of Loft Residential Condominium.
The photo is taken from the roof of Hoops Gym and Wishbone Restaurant which were also part of this Mixed Use Development.

The project was completed in 1993.
Credit goes to Mayer Jeffers Gillespie, Archs.
Tom Knapp was the Project Architect.

Gallery 312 - Chicago, Illinois


Gallery 312 is a not for profit art galley benefiting children and artistic education of our youth. The gallery is located in the basement of an 8 story loft condominium building.

22 N. Morgan St - Chicago, IL


Here, we removed the center of a 2 story building
to create a courtyard for Light and Ventilation.

Credit goes to Mayer Jeffers Gillespie for giving me a great start to my career.

14 N. Peoria - Chicago, IL


We have worked on several large loft buildings in the past.

Credit goes to Mayer Jeffers Gillespie
who gave me a great starting point for my career.

386 East St. Charles Road - Lombard, IL


Our space has doubled as an art gallery.
The art changes every 8 weeks, and we benefit from a changing environment with fairly decent art pieces on a regular basis.

386 East St Charles Road - Lombard, IL


This has been our home for the last 2 years.
Unfortunately the exterior does not give credit to the interior environment which is actually a very nice architecture studio.

Wrightwood Avenue - Chicago, Illinois


10 Units Condominium
The scale of this building was very well considered.
The stone detailing was simple and well executed.

Southport and Irving Road - Chicago, IL


16 Unit Condominiums

N. Seminary - Chicago, Illinois


3 Units - Apartments

This is pretty typical Chicago Walk-Up

Wrightwood Avenue - Chicago, Illinois


10 Units on Wrightwood in Chicago.

This building turned out very well.
and was the basis for a later building in Madison.
This one turned out much nicer.

Francis Street - Madison, Wisconsin


22 Units in Madison Wisconsin.

The design of this building was based on a building I had done 2-3 years earlier which turned out much better. I believe that money was tighter with the construction of this building, which serves as Dormitory Housing for UW Students.

Mohawk Street - Chicago, Illinois


4 Unit Condominium.
Attached Parking for 4 Cars.
Roof Top Garden.


I need a better photographer.

Halsted and Lille - Chicago, IL


16 Units Residential Condominium.
With Parking for 24 cars.

Diversey Avenue and Damen


6 Unit Condominium Project.
Completed 2006

Damen and Irving Park Roads - Chicago, IL


A three flat, designed about 12 years ago.

DC Spinal Wellness and Sports Rehabilitation


This is a good looking building in Downtown Lombard. NO, we did not design it.

But we did design two retail storefront spaces on the ground floor. The construction of the project is complete, but for some reason the commercial spaces have not yet opened to the public.

We have been talking to the client to see if
we can assist him in opening, hopefully SOON.

Oakbrook Fertility Center


Believe it or not, this is a State of the Art Fertility Laboratory with several specific laboratory elements that make this facility one of the most successful fertility treatment facilities in the Midwest.

The "Clean Room" laboratory has a fully automatic self-contained mechanical filtration system which filters 99.9% of particulate matter as well as chemical and biological contaminates.

Great Lakes Naval Base


The Photo Lab

Battle Stations 21 - US Navy


Welcome to Naval Architecture at its finest.

Battle Stations 21 - US Navy


This project is too complex to discuss here.
If you want to understand the project or our involvement,
please feel free to call at any time. We would be happy to discuss some of the fascinating details of this State of the Art Naval Training Facility.

Koko Taylor's Celebrity


We completed a new bar and entertainment facility for the Queen of the Blues, including bar service area, performance stage and private entertainment areas for Koko and her staff.

Union League Club of Chicago


Here are the staff locker rooms
BEFORE construction.

Clearly they needed alot of work.
For a high end club, these facilities had not been updated in almost 60 years.