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.
One of the more distinctive street signs in Louisville has up and vanished. The sign is located near the corner of Ninth Street and West Main Street and is hanging on the Kentucky Mirror & Plate Glass building. The...
Workers have been installing the new sidewalks in front of the Waterfront Plaza towers on Main Street for a little while now, and there's enough of the new tri-color pattern in place to get a good look at the...
The past year or so has witnessed the addition of several new dining options to the downtown central business district. Some of the new stars include the Manhattan Grill in the Republic Building on 5th Street and Muhammad Ali...
Situated on Liberty Street mid block between Campbell Street and Shelby Street sits a simple yet quite grand brick and limestone structure serving as a warehouse for the Bargain Supply Company. Flapping in the breeze amongst the cracked and...
As All Hallows' Eve draws ever nearer, we bring you this week a skeleton adorned hearse. You may have spotted the car at the Caufield's Halloween Parade on Baxter Avenue towing a hot rod coffin this year or you...
Since the Broken Sidewalk has been blank for the last several days, we've decided to launch a new feature: Big Blank Thursdays where we hope to bring you some of the ugliest, most deadening, and downright pedestrian unfriendly walls...
A Broken Sidewalk tipster pointed us to the site of the most recent historic destruction in the Shelby Park neighborhood on East St. Catherine Street. A two-and-a-half story brick townhouse most recently used as a church for the Riverview...
While the vision of Museum Plaza grows dim in these uncertain economic times where financing isn't easy to come by, the international media has begun looking elsewhere for the most inspirational skyscraper designs today. After the Wall Street Journal...
Waterfront Park has undoubtedly been a major boon to revitalizing Louisville's urban neighborhoods, but the eastern and western phases of the park still remain divided by hundreds of feet of chain link fence as construction continues on some of...