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 spot is the current location of Theater Square. It's Fourth Street just north of Broadway. It's two stories now, with a central plaza, but it used to be five. It was made of brick with simple detailing that was...
This is the scene just about every morning in Portland, Oregon as the masses of commuting cyclists head off to work. On this particular bridge, cyclists account for 20 percent of all traffic. Here's a bit from StreetsBlog about the film: "The...
A Louisville man was arrested today for making his 6-year-old daughter walk to school. WHAS 11 reported that the father was charged with endangering the welfare of a minor since the route to her elementary school was on a busy road...
I guess we're the Possibility City after all. Or so says Foreign Direct Investment magazine, a publication of the Financial Times company in London. Four months went into researching 400 cities classified under four population categories. A litany of...
Brick arches and ornate details can now be found on the corner of Fourth Street and Breckinridge Street in the SoBro neighborhood. Much more brick has been applied to Presentation Academy's new Arts & Athletics Building since we checked...
We posted a link to this video last week in the Evening News Roundup, but have since seen it pop up all over the Internet. These street bike moves demonstrating parkour, the art of movement, are simply amazing and...
Big plans in Chicago for solar energy got us thinking about Louisville. TreeHugger reported today that Chicago's South Side is installing the largest urban solar power plant in the United States. Where once there was an abandoned industrial site, soon there...
A portion of scaffolding at the arena construction site along River Road collapsed today sending three workers to the hospital. Some time between 10:18 and 10:31 this morning, crews were working to pour a concrete slab for the main...
The old Omer Carmichael Building on the corner of Muhammad Ali Boulevard and Hancock Street is nearly gone. Demolition got underway last week and was abruptly stopped when workers hit a water main causing flooding in the area. The...