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.
(Editor’s Note: Preservation Month 2016 might be over, but we're continuing our Focus on Preservation series highlighting some of the most storied theaters of Louisville.) Rialto Theater 616 South Fourth Street Architect: Joseph & Joseph Architects Opened: May 12, 1921 Closed: July 30, 1968 Demolished: 1969 Built in...
On Saturday, June 11, the Central Kentucky Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-CKC) will host its annual Home Tour and this year, we're excited to be presenting media sponsors. The AIA-CKC Home Tour includes eight houses across Louisville, from...
Speed kills, especially on city streets teeming with pedestrians and cyclists. The investigative news nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive graph that deftly conveys how just a few miles per hour can spell the difference between life and death when a person is struck by...
Across the country, it's becoming less and less common for millennials and Generation Z to have driver's licenses or to own a car. So for Louisville's youth population, TARC, the Transit Authority of River City, has launched its annual Summer...
Cities are their own manmade ecosystems, and they're teeming with wildlife. One animal particularly fit for the challenges of urban life is the raccoon, and according to National Geographic, they're everywhere. "Every city block probably has a raccoon living on it,"...
"The history of the 9th Street Divide starts with urban renewal. Around that time period, cities around the country decided they were going to remove African Americans from the urban core and put them in their own neat little...
On Saturday, June 11, the Central Kentucky Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-CKC) will host its annual Home Tour and this year, we're excited to be presenting media sponsors. The AIA-CKC Home Tour includes eight houses across Louisville, from...
On Wednesday, May 25, Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman denied an injunction to dismantle and store the Confederate Monument on Third Street near the University of Louisville's Belknap Campus clearing the way for Metro Louisville to remove and eventually relocate the...
Cynicism is easy. When I first saw the Broken Sidewalk coverage of proposed changes at 1904–1908 Bardstown Road, my reaction was negative, definitely not hopeful. Cynical. I posted on Facebook that the case was “a good example of our broken...