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 new tea shop is being prepared for a recently renovated retail space on Bardstown Road. Just a few months ago this space was still under construction with its facade improvement, and now construction crews are busy fitting up...
A tipster tells us today that the word on the street is the arena has failed it's first pile stress tests and must be reworked in order to support the superstructure we're all waiting for. Apparently, the piles are...
No one's in trouble here folks, it's just a pun. The Marseilles of Cherokee Road luxury residential development transforming a former run-down apartment house into six luxury townhomes is still hammering away, literally. We spotted crews today moving debris...
This week, the Louisville Science Center began gutting the ground level of the Alexander Building directly to its west. The museum purchased the four-story limestone and brick building for $2 million last year and plans classrooms and laboratories for...
This week's art car isn't actually a car. And there are two of them. We'd call them art bikes, but according to wikipedia, they aren't quite that, either. They are, however, two of the most creative modified bikes we've...
This week, crews have been installing the scaffolding in front of the old limestone whiskey warehouse on West Main Street. The facade is due for a good scrubbing as construction on the new Irish pub, restaurant, and tea room gets...
The tiny Roy E. Steele Shoe Repair Shop on Market Street near the corner of Fifth Street is currently in the process of moving around the corner to a new store-front on Fifth. The company is under new management...
Construction has started in earnest on Presentation Academy's new $5 million Arts and Athletic Complex on the corner of Fourth Street and Breckinridge Street in the SoBro neighborhood. You might remember from the rendering that the building was designed...
This week's blank wall covers nearly an entire block of East Main Street and is home to family-owned Service Tanks Corporation. Even though the wall casts a shadow on nearly 400 feet of sidewalk, there is something about this...