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.
The big news so far this week is that if you walk in the Louisville Metro area, you're taking your life into your own hands. A new report called Dangerous by Design co-authored by Transportation for America and Tri-State...
It's been a little while since we checked in with the holy conversion on East Main Street and Shelby Street in Butchertown. Pip Pullen and Susan Swope have been working to transform the former Marcus Lindsey Memorial M.E. Church...
The University of Louisville's latest addition to the Medical Center officially opened its doors to researchers in October, revealing a state-of-the-art research facility on the corner of Hancock Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard. Designed by Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan of...
Louisville is no stranger to the weird side of life. That's certainly the case with two sets of columns spotted on Fourth Street and Frankfort Avenue. It seems that Louisville has invented two new orders of architecture that incorporate...
As the Cardinals continue with their football season (it's a good thing we don't have to cover sports), here's our latest round of photos from the expansion of Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Be sure to check out the specifics...
Liberty Green has become a showcase of late for great paving techniques that dually make Louisville more beautiful and more sustainable. Crews have been working on Clay Street between Jefferson and Muhammad Ali to lay pavers in the development...
I have walked down Third Street at Chestnut a hundred times, but the last time I journeyed through the area I decided to veer off the sidewalk and into a small plaza at the Louisville Water Company headquarters. Previously,...
SoBro is set to lose another historic corner commercial building, the kind that was listed as one of Louisville's Ten Most Endangered Historic Structures (or typologies in this case) according to Preservation Louisville. (Why does it seem that most...
While walking through Nulu recently, the sign pictured above on the old Hausman Building advertising the NuluFestival from September seemed all too appropriate. What once read "the eagle has landed" advertising a car dealership in faded and peeling paint...