Branden Klayko

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Branden founded Broken Sidewalk in 2008 while practicing architecture in Louisville. He continued the site for seven years while living in New York City, returning to Louisville in 2016. Branden is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and has covered architecture, design, and urbanism for The Architect's Newspaper, Designers & Books, Inhabitat, and the American Institute of Architects.
A tower crane is now fully set up on Jefferson Street at the site of a new 6-story, 433 space garage between First and Second Streets. Construction of the garage's foundation began last August. Half of the spaces will...
The Cloister Apartments on Chestnut Street is losing a small bit of its century old charm this week as workers remove its old slate roof in favor of a new asphalt one. Shattered shingles were tossed off the three...
This week's big blank wall was found on Mellwood Avenue between Frankfort Avenue and Brownsboro Road. To be fair, this area is dominated by big blank walls of various factories and warehouses, but this one overwhelmed us with its...
The Eichhorn Stained Glass Building located at 810 & 812 East Broadway near Shelby Street has hit the market and could potentially spark an East Broadway renaissance. The three-story building covers 18,600 square feet and was built in the...
The Metro Development Center on Fifth Street near Muhammad Ali Blvd. is about to become the first Louisville government building to sprout a green roof. Construction began in September and is scheduled to be wrapped up in the next...
Here's a new feature we hope to run periodically where we'll dig into our photo archives to spotlight a part of town that has changed dramatically. The first installment is in the Phoenix Hill neighborhood on Shelby Street between...
The scaffolding surrounding the ancillary building at Highland Baptist Church on the corner of Cherokee Road and Grinstead Drive should be coming down soon as repairs to the building are wrapping up this week. The building has been painted,...
Joe's Crab Shack on the downtown Wharf is nearly finished with its new coat of white paint. The building was originally left unpainted to sport a weathered-rustic look, and it pulled off the effect rather well. The new paint is,...
The grassy lawn of the west Belvedere / Waterfront Plaza has been known to become a swamp when it rains, or when it's irrigates, but especially when it's irrigated in the rain (that actually happens fairly frequently). Workers are...