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.
While Louisville is known as a great place in which to live, and there are many nice houses in the metro area, the city has also lost many fine homes over its history due to fire, urban renewal, and demolition. Next...
On Wednesday morning, Sometime soon, the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) Committee will meet to discuss a proposal for a six-story, 128-room Cambria Hotel on the corner of Floyd Street and Market Street. The design of the proposed facility, to be developed...
When you look down from a mile up, it's unmistakable: Butchertown has been, well, butchered, sliced, and laid out on a charcuterie board. Over here you have a selection of cured sausages, excuse me, historic shotgun houses. Over by...
This week, the clock began ticking on a 30-day waiting period before Spalding University can demolish the former Puritan Uniform Rental complex at West Breckinridge Street and Second Street. While there's good reason to believe an effort to save...
This week we've been talking about not just the fate of one century-old building on West Breckinridge Street, but the future of an entire neighborhood. What do we want SoBro—the area south of Broadway between Downtown and Old Louisville—to look...
A sturdy, orange-brick building has been keeping SoBro clean for almost a century. Puritan Uniform Rental's simple yellow lettering above its doorway at 206–208 West Breckinridge Street near Second Street has long been a fixture of SoBro, playing off the building’s...
The switch to cleaner energy has reduced carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants to the point that cars, trucks, and airplanes emit more CO2 than power plants for the first time since 1979, Brad Plumer reports for Vox. Transportation...
Seemingly out of nowhere, a major new building in the Medical Center will soon be taking shape. The University of Louisville School of Medicine announced Thursday that ground will broken on the so-called Pediatric Ambulatory Care Center on July 18, beginning with initial...
Ever since the draft Move Louisville plan was unveiled in April, the city has been collecting public input about the goals, priority projects, and policies laid out within its 100 pages. And this is one important document that will...