Terminated Vistas

Speed Over Place: Ousting the Confederate Monument for cars, not morals,...

On Wednesday, May 25, Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman denied an injunction to dismantle and store the Confederate Monument on Third Street near the University of...

Lost Louisville: Van Camp Building on Shelby Street

On August 1st, we took a look at the old Ash Street Station / Hartstern Grocery that was recently destroyed by fire, but across...

Lost Louisville: Realty Building at Center and Jefferson Streets

One of Louisville's least-remembered large tear-down's occupied a prominent site across the street from the old courthouse, now Metro Hall, on what was then...

One More Reason To Love East Broadway

Okay, so there's nothing really interesting about this building in terms of news. It's not for sale, there's no planned development, it's not architecturally...

ZirMed Gateway Towers Terminate 9th Street

One of our favorite urban design techniques is the terminated vista. It's that rare occurrence where a road's view ends on a focal point,...