The construction of the new arena for the University of Louisville inadvertent (we think) got political today as crews installed a new tower crane in the giant crater we call the arena site. The problem you might ask? Seeing a new tower crane is awesome, but this one is blue and white. We wonder how die-hard Cards fans feel about a Big Blue crane building their new shrine?
Over at the University’s new parking garage on Muhammad Ali Blvd., they got the crane’s color right: red. With the fierce drama surrounding the state’s biggest rivalry, every detail matters.
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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.
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This is normal. Most of Belknap campus was designed and built by engineers from the University of Kentucky, although many students would argue that the drainage problems and structural insecurities are evidence of a UK education. UofL has called on UK to help them in certain projects, particularly ones involving manual labor. UK estimates that there are 27,500 UK alumni living in Louisville, presumably all working for UofL grads.