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 Henry Clay building on Third Street at Chestnut Street has placed second nationally in the National Development Council Academy 2009 Awards for Community Development. The mixed-use development by City Properties Group was chosen out of a group of...
A three-story brick and limestone building on First Street between Main and Market Streets has been issued an emergency demolition order. We had a chance to take a tour of the building last October and learn of the development...
The Cobalt Marketplace on the corner of Market and Jackson Streets has landed a new sidewalk level tenant. The space was most recently the home to Market on Market that closed last September (the owner is opening up shop soon...
Spotted this sewer Downtown today that was filled with a very bright green liquid. A better (but slightly more disgusting) view of the green liquid in the sewer is below. These colors haven't been altered. It appears to be...
Construction on New Albany's new Riverfront Amphitheater has begun to show some progress. The old yellow tensile-fabric amphitheater was damaged in the wind storm last year. While the construction site doesn't look like much today, concrete foundations are already...
The Portland Avenue Presbyterian Church was destroyed by fire in January, but now the congregation is drawing up plans to rebuild on the original site. After the fire was extinguished, the frigid January air turned the charred remains into...
The American Society of Landscape Architects has presented the Floyds Fork Greenway Master Plan a 2009 Honor Award. Nearly 600 entries were considered for awards and the Floyds Fork plan was one of only 49 projects to receive recognition...
It seems now that the Republic Plaza building on Seventh & Market Streets is complete, the Republic Bank building on Sixth & Market is due for a little facelift as well. Scaffolding has been up for a couple days...
What if you couldn't speed? If you had to go the speed limit; not 5 over, but nothing above the posted limit? A new prototype car in London is equipped with an "Intelligent Speed Adaptation" system (a high-tech governor)...