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.
About two months ago, work began on a small warehouse on Shelby Street between Main and Market streets. What could have been just another boring building is shaping up to become one of the nicest modern warehouses built in...
Well, the results are in, and it looks like there's no room for debate: Bardstown Road has been voted Louisville's greatest street, trouncing the competition with 63 percent of the vote. We have to admit, it didn't take a crystal ball...
Downtown's newest tower crane was installed over the last weekend on the campus of Jefferson Community & Technical College on Second Street to help speed along construction of their new Allied Health Building. The new $25.6 million, four-story building...
Jewish Hospital is getting serious about selling the old J.C. Penney Building on the corner of Fourth Street and Guthrie Green. Earlier this year, the hospital was considering keeping the building and giving it an exterior face-lift, but it...
Construction has been quietly making progress next to the Independence Building on Muhammad Ali Boulevard between First and Second streets. A small non-descript, completely blank, white building has been remade into a pretty nice, though still sidewalk inaccessible, office building. The...
There's another vacant retail spot downtown. This time, Lynn Imaging has abandoned its location at Seventh Street and Market Street in favor of the Bluegrass Industrial Park. The retail outlet was in one of those hard-to-lease parking garages, so...
The giant crater we lovingly call the arena site is getting bigger and bigger with every dump truck driving off the dirt field. We stopped by today to see just how big a mess we're talking about, and it...
The Presidential Place Condos in Butchertown on the corner of Washington Street and Adams Street are billed as high luxury and are now 33 percent sold out. The development has three units, so if we do the math... yes,...
New Albany has been put up for sale. All of it. Every last building must go. Okay, so that's obviously an exaggeration, but walking around the New Albany downtown, it does seem that every other building has a for...