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 a recent inspection, the Kennedy Bridge was again rated as "structurally deficient," a title it's held for several years. Sounds bad, right? In reality, the term is a technical one used by transportation engineers and can be a...
Keep a look out for Actors Theater's newest marketing campaign: blood-red Dracula pedicabs. This year's show started September 17 and runs through Halloween. Pedicabs will be out cruising 4th Street Live! and Bardstown Road through the end of October. Actors...
The city of Santa Rosa, California recently installed a creative new public art project called Cyclisk by artists Mike Grieve and Ilana Spector. The 60-foot tall obelisk is made from recycled bike parts. I'm not sure what message is to...
Here's a selection of cobblestone streets in New York. Most are the rough, generally unmaintained variety that has simply been left in place since the street was first cobbled—the kind you dread to ride over on a bike. In...
Renovation work at the art-deco 118-122 East Main Street has been ongoing for a little while now. Built in the 1870s, the once-bourbon-warehouse was modernized in the 1940s to reflect the streamlined aesthetics of the time and has been...
Last week, an easily overlooked structure at the corner of Rowan and 11th streets in the shadow of that elevated-highway-monstrosity we call our riverfront was destroyed. The area north of Rowan Street to the Ohio River was once a...
Developers Gant Hill and Jonathan Blue have been mulling over their Molee Building on Muhammad Ali Boulevard between Fourth and Fifth Streets for several years, but now they tell Broken Sidewalk "the project is being moved to the front burner"...
Here's another in our Lost Louisville series where we showcase a great historic building that was demolished in the city. This is the Todd Building on the corner of Fourth and Market Streets, one of Louisville's early skyscrapers dating...
Thanks to a tipster for sending in a few snapshots of construction of the new three-story Norton Hospital Radiation Center on the corner of East Broadway and Floyd Street. I first wrote about the project when the design was...