Facadectomy

In a lot of ways, modern Downtown Louisville can be summed up in one block: Whiskey Row. Abandoned only a few years ago, the...

Louisville's most famous facade-without-a-building might be the Heigold House facade, currently adorning the northern terminus of Frankfort Avenue at River Road as a monument...

Metro Louisville has initiated a process to determine how best to reuse building fragments that have been salvaged from the demolition of historic structures....

As I write these words, the historic Water Company Building is breathing its last under the weight of the wrecking ball. The landmark-yet-unlandmarked building,...

The first buildings on the site of what will become the Main & Clay Apartments have already fallen. The mixed-use residential building by Nashville's...

We've been watching the Water Company Block closely as September 6 approached and passed. That day ended the 30-day stay of demolition on the old Louisville...

January 7, 2003 was as cold as a winter day in Louisville gets. The temperature hovered below freezing and winds gusted between buildings Downtown....

The construction fence is up, asbestos is out, and crews are set to begin work on a 262-unit, $50 million apartment building in Butchertown. According to...

It's been seven months since Louisville's biggest Tactical Urbanism experiment, Resurfaced on Main, shut its doors. By all accounts, the effort to reclaim a vacant...