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.
We usually bring news about construction projects for the living, but a tipster wrote in to tell us about a new mausoleum under construction at Cave Hill Cemetery, so we decided to stop by for a look at the...
Work is wrapping up at the new 801 East Broadway Development we've been affectionately calling the Shelby Street Apartments. The exterior of the building is all but done, so we decided to see how close it matches up with...
One of our favorite aspects of city life is that you can sense activity and space all around you. Whether it's the people strolling the sidewalks or traffic in the streets, the life of the retail spaces along the...
The 'lattice tower' on the Museum Plaza site is starting to come down piece by piece as workers maneuver across thin metal beams with torches in hand. Work started on Monday, but the last couple days were slow with...
The 1.3 mile stretch of streetcar line that opened in Seattle just over a year ago looks amazing. Besides their smooth, silent, and odorless ride on tracks, it's only a small step to board the trams from the sidewalk...
One of our favorite churches in Louisville isn't a grand cathedral. It's actually quite small and is overshadowed by a massive and ornate church next door. In fact, it's not even a church any longer, but has been converted...
Several tipsters wrote in to tell us of the joy they felt upon seeing a new "Jimmy John's Coming Soon" banner posted on the side of the Mercantile Gallery Lofts on the corner of Floyd & Market Street. The...
With the bit of near-80 degree weather we enjoyed yesterday, it can only mean that Derby is approaching. And that can only mean the South Louisville neighborhood between U of L and Churchill Downs will soon be one vast...
Yesterday, the C-J reported the old Browning's Restaurant and Brewery that closed last October at Louisville Slugger Field had found a new entrepreneur to convert the place into a "family-style restaurant and a companion microbrewery" under the same name...