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.
Image: Spalding gymnasium to be demolished. (Branden Klayko / Broken Sidewalk) One step forward and one step back in SoBro. The days are numbered for a romanesque gymnasium on Spalding University's SoBro campus after an Intent to Demolish sign was...
  How does one actually start with a topic like this? Could this have ever been a reality? Well, the answer is a resounding YES! American history is very quickly forgotten, especially when all physical vestiges, remnant structures, scant photographic images and...
This is President Obama's speech announcing his plans for American High Speed Rail (HSR) from April 2009. Will we see progress on rail in 2010? (h/t @HSRail, if video doesn't load, click here)
Came across this bike rack on the corner of Fourth Street and Broadway. It's pretty hard not to notice the rack because of its size and many were having a great time spinning the wheels of the bikes comprising...
Thanks to Diane Deaton-Street, Broken Sidewalk contributing photographer, for putting together this collage of Bardstown Road in 1935 over Bardstown Road in 2009 (thanks as well to the UL archives for allowing us to show the old photo here). As...
After reporting on December 17 about two lost chickens in Nulu, readers wrote in to proclaim their love of urban chickens. It seems the mainstream media may have been listening as CNN (and Wave 3) picked up the story...
So the new parking garage on Jefferson Street may have been completed several months ago, but the last time we checked in with the structure, it still had a tower crane. The garage is now owned by PARC and...
A few days ago while walking along the beautiful Jeffersonville river walk, I spotted a partially sunken vessel that once served as the Star of Jeffersonville's boarding barge. I snapped a photo but didn't think much of it. Today,...
Take a look at the new floodwall and gate recently installed under the Second Street Bridge at the arena site. The new gate is distinct from other gates around Louisville and features doors that swing on hinges rather than...