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 Ohio River Bridges Project could threaten smaller transportation projects around the Louisville region. The C-J reported today that because there's no financing plan for the $4.1 Billion fiasco, the Federal government could freeze important short-term transportation projects. A...
We had a chance today to check in with construction progress at the new arena and were pleasantly surprised at how high the structure has risen on its north end. This one seems never to disappoint as it is...
An historic three-story whisky warehouse dating to the 1860s has been reduced to just one story. We knew in May that the building's future prospects didn't look good as an emergency demolition order was posted on the front door,...
Sullivan University has acquired a Holiday Inn near Newburg Road and the Watterson Expressway and will convert the property into student housing. The 200-room hotel will close at the end of September and will immediately undergo a $1 million...
  Near the end of East Market Street, between Shelby Street and Campbell Street, the roadway becomes noticeably wider; parallel parking is replaced by diagonal spots; and the urban edge of the historic buildings is pushed back from adjacent blocks....
Illustrator Robert Crumb is famous for his critical and satirical take on mainstream America. In 1979, he created a series of drawings depicting the evolution of America's urban landscape from its beginnings in wilderness. All the panels are combined...
A decrepit one-story building on East Main Street is no more. A Broken Sidewalk tipster wrote in a little while back to tell us about an intent to demolish poster spotted on the structure, and reported that last week,...
Butchertown and the JB Swift Company have been fighting for a while over an illegal expansion to the pork slaughterhouse's facility (among other things) between Story and Mellwood Avenues. The Board of Zoning Adjustments postponed a hearing about the...
The Galt House Hotel has revealed plans for a new 860-space parking garage and a "pedestrian connector" that will improve the western streetscape of Third Street across from the new arena. Once defined by heaps of electrical equipment and...