The apartment house where the boy's body was found is in a middle-class neighborhood with a hodgepodge of old and new architecture.

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They all express Kahn's developed view that architecture should be timeless, synthesize old and new, and bring together the local and the universal.

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Half of the town will be old, revered architecture and half will be a gleaming new jewel.

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In fact, initially, they designed their new lines of photo typesetters on the old, hot-metal architecture and tried to incorporate elements of the hot-metal process into the phototypesetting.

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