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.
There was a scare Monday on Logan Street at Lampton Street as a few bricks fell from a tall ice warehouse structure. The city blocked off the street for safety and sent out inspectors to take a look at...
This week, developer Todd Blue of Cobalt Ventures and owner of a series of 19th century buildings on West Main Street dubbed the Iron Quarter announced his intention to tear down the historic properties citing the buildings' deteriorated condition....
I thought I would share these photos I took last year of a public art installation in New York. Located on a pedestrian median in the middle of Pike Street in the Lower East Side, the brick sculpture was...
GOOD magazine recently published its Guide to Better Neighborhoods including one section on billboard removal. They present a series of steps residents and neighborhood groups can take to get a billboard removed including knowing the local sign ordinance, teaming...
What could have been a huge opportunity for the Butchertown neighborhood leaves me thinking, "Meh." The old Boland-Maloney lumber yard warehouse has been for sale for years but new owners plan a large mini-warehouse complex according to a report...
WFPL checked in with renovations planned on the historic Ouerbacker House in the Russell neighborhood. After the mansion was nearly torn down, renovations have been slow to start, but at least the building wasn't disassembled and shipped to California. Here's...
Business First posted a blurb this week about the impending renovation at the Zorn Avenue Pumping Station. You may remember back in 2008 when the Water Tower underwent a $1.7 million refurbishment, but now the adjacent pumping station building...
In late March, the C-J reported that a Birmingham, Alabama based restaurant planned to open in the PNC Plaza tower at Fifth and Jefferson Streets. Thanks to a tipster for sending in this photo that shows the new Zoes...
Here are a few construction photos sent in by a tipster of the new dining facility under construction at Third Street and Brandeis Avenue near the U of L Belknap campus. You can see a few renderings on our...