Best Worst 2016

Best: Louisville made bank with the architecture of today’s Actors Theater

  Built as the Bank of Louisville in 1837, this small but distinguished structure on Main Street has survived 180 years of weathering, and, more...

Worst: Louisville loses when headquarters choose the suburbs over Downtown

  In 1964, Lincoln Income Life Insurance built the first major office in the suburbs at Breckenridge Lane and the Watterson Expressway. The resulting skyscraper is...

Worst: Louisville’s original layout didn’t encourage the synergy that could have...

  Centuries ago, Louisville’s Central Business District (CBD) was planned with a “linear” layout, as opposed to a “compact” one. Instead of concentrating development around...

Best: Louisville’s Olmsted parks are the gift that’s been giving back...

  May 20, 1891, is a landmark date in Louisville planning history. That was the day when Frederick Law Olmsted—the Father of Landscape Architecture himself—arrived...