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.
Among the perennial concerns of Louisville urban dwellers is a lack of grocery stores in and around Downtown. But a group of citizens is hoping to change that with the Louisville Food Cooperative, and you're invited to weigh in...
  Plans for a new hotel at the center of Nulu are moving forward, according to Ron Turnier, president of Creation Gardens, the food wholesaler spearheading the project. Now, Turnier has shared new renderings and details of his AC Hotel...
(Note: Also check out this alternative plan for the corridor proposed by Bicycling for Louisville.) Louisville Metro Public Works is proposing reconfiguring West Broadway between 22nd Street and Louis Coleman, Jr. Drive with a central turning lane in an effort to...
In the past couple months, a number of important awards have been handed out across Louisville and Kentucky. Here's our roundup of some of the biggest in the worlds of urbanism, design, preservation, and neighborhood achievement. Congratulations to all...
A proposal to reconfigure parking at Third Street's iconic Crescent Centre Apartments would further erode the pedestrian environment in the area. The situation on the ground at the Crescent Centre already isn't ideal for pedestrians. Four curb cuts leading to a...
Yung Nguyen, an immigrant from Vietnam, is leading a group in Louisville that has launched a design competition for a memorial to honor "the tremendous sacrifices the American and South Vietnamese Armed Forces made during the Vietnam War in order...
This past April, Broken Sidewalk broke the news that the much-watched Service Tanks Property at 700 East Main Street had been placed under contract. Now Jacob Ryan at WFPL brings the first news of what's slated to that 2.72-acre...
Sometimes you've got to get creative when developing in the Highlands. That's the idea behind a proposal for five new apartments in a three story structure just off Murray Avenue and Bardstown Road in the Bonnycastle neighborhood. Aaron Tasman of Tasman...
The Dirt Bowl is a true Louisville original: unique, storied, and driven by people who love their community. Prompted in part by the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Dirt Bowl started in 1969 when an all-state...