Branden Klayko

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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.
After an altogether not-that-speedy wait, the final design for the much-anticipated Speed Art Museum will formally be revealed tomorrow at a public forum (more on that later). My colleague Alan Brake at The Architect's Newspaper found a teaser fly-though...
In what could be a scene from Doctor Dolittle, a truck load of giant pink snails was spotted heading into Louisville today on Interstate 65. While such a story could be misconstrued as only some April Fool's fun, these...
An aggressively growing Facebook page is calling for transplanting the Sacramento Kings NBA franchise to the new KFC Yum! Center. And Sacramento has noticed, but one report from the city's ABC News 10 isn't in a fighting mood. They've got...
Thanks to everyone who attended the Mid City Mall Brief Urban Design Area Study (BUDAS) on Saturday! The event was co-sponsored by Broken Sidewalk and the Urban Design Studio and set out to imagine the future potential of the...
An evening fire on Sunday leaves an uncertain future for a massive brick house in Old Louisville. The smell of smoke still lingered on the block near the corner of Breckinridge Street as firefighters and residents milled about. With...
  Broken Sidewalk is teaming up with the Urban Design Studio to host the first in a series of charrette-style events we're calling BUDAS, short for Brief Urban Design Area Studies. The first event, scheduled for THIS SATURDAY, November 6,...
The historic Quinn Chapel Church on the corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets is losing bricks. Water damage caused by a worn-out roof has caused a small portion of the church's eastern wall to collapse and suddenly we may...
TODAY! (Thursday, October 21, 2010) Be sure to make it to this evening's Car-Free Happy Hour at Vernon Lanes in Butchertown! Tonight's event starts at 5:30p and marks the one-year anniversary of Louisville's premier car-free networking event. Car-Free Happy Hour...
The ribbon may be cut on the KFC Yum! Center, but one vigilant Broken Sidewalk tipster has spotted an embarrassing blemish on the front doorstep to Downtown's most high-profile project. A large sign proclaiming Louisville's newest public space awkwardly...