US firm Norman Kelley has merged old and new elements inside the flagship store for clothing retailer Notre, which is housed inside a 113-year-old building in central Chicago. 
The Notre store is located in the Fulton-Randolph Market District, a historic area within the city's West Loop. It occupies the first floor of a 1906 building that once housed the Edward Katzinger & Company, which manufactured tin pans for bakeries.

Notre offers mens apparel and shoes by designers such as Comme des Garçons, Acne Studios, Junya Watanabe, Converse, and NikeLab. The upscale shop also sells apothecary items and recently began offering women's clothing.
Formerly encompassing a linear, 1,800-square-foot (167 square metres) space, the store now spans 4,500 square feet (418 square metres). The expansion was made possible when a neighbouring art gallery moved out in 2018.
The site's history presented both challenges and inspiration for local architecture studio Norman Kelley.
"The existing conditions conveyed a high contrast between a white wall gallery and a massive, heavy timber structure with exposed mechanical and fire safety systems," Norman Kelley said in a project description.

The design team opted to retain certain historic elements while reconfiguring the spatial conditions.
"To accommodate its layered history, Notre aimed to replace its warehouse-gallery origins with a domestic enfilade, or series of intimately interconnected low-ceiling rooms," the team...