Proposals
Here’s the building that once stood across from the Urban Design...
The block of Third Street between Muhammad Ali Boulevard and Guthrie Street in Downtown Louisville is a challenging one. On the east side, truly mixed-use...
Let’s take another look at this proposal for a placemaking roundabout...
The Circle at Broadway and Baxter Avenue concept has been one of my more popular Urban Compositions since it first appeared on Broken Sidewalk...
This proposal looks to reinvent a clumsy triangular block separating Nulu...
On the triangular block where Baxter Avenue, Lexington Road, Jefferson Street, Liberty Street, and Chestnut Street come together, I propose a contemporary mixed use tower...
Imagining an urban future for Bardstown Road’s Showcase Cinemas site
The former Showcase Cinema site on Bardstown Road south of the Watterson Expressway (I-264) has been rumored to be a potential site of a...
A proposal to dress up MSD’s planned Logan Street CSO Basin...
At the Shelby Park Germantown Rail Corridor meeting in July, representatives of the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) introduced the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) solution...
How about a beer garden in Tyler Park? Proposal could activate...
Image: The western half of Tyler park on a summer afternoon. (Amber MacPherson / Flickr)
Several years ago, when I would commute from Downtown to...
Seeing Southern Indiana: Creating Positive Change on the Waterfront
Last year I was looking around Louisville for areas of unrealized potential. I dutifully followed Broken Sidewalk for development announcements. I kept up with...
Students From Yale Study Boutique Manufacturing, Bourbon in Louisville
American manufacturing may be on the rocks, but Deborah Berke, principal at Deborah Berke & Partners and designer of the 21c Museum Hotel, believes...
Imagining Louisville: Circle at Baxter and Broadway
I took the opportunity over the holiday break to examine the design possibilities of a traffic circle, or roundabout, at the intersection of Baxter...