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.
East Market Street has lost another business, but there hasn't been any neighborhood outcry from its loss. The Louisville Gold Club, one of two strip clubs in the area, closed its doors last December and the building it occupied...
At the end of 2008 we wrote a River City development year-in-review that never made it online. We've tweaked it a bit to bring the lingo up to date, but here's the guts of the story. We're calling it...
Last August, Jerry's Market on the corner of Washington Street and Campbell Street abruptly closed for renovations. Those renovations were supposed to wrap up last September, but the shop remains shuttered. We've been keeping an eye on the building...
A collection of colorful birds, ducks, and roosters by folk-artist Marvin Finn (1913-2007) arrived back at Waterfront Park today near the corner of Preston and Witherspoon streets. The public art display of 29 birds had been undergoing restoration involving...
As Windstorm Jr. rolled through town last night, sending more power lines sprawling into the streets and killing electricity for almost 40,000 people, it tried to pick on our very own Museum Plaza. The fierce wind gusts tore loose...
Waterfront Park's Great Lawn is losing a couple hundred square feet of grass underneath Interstate 64. But first, let's take a moment to gaze upon Louisville's beautiful skyline. It's all there in the photo above. Waterfront Park Place is...
Butchertown's ongoing battle with the Swift Plant between Story Avenue and Mellwood Avenue is one stinky feud. Even in the dead of winter, it seems, the plant can't contain itself. Patti Clare, the former Interim Director of the Downtown...
The old Mom's Music store on the corner of Frankfort Avenue and Stilz Avenue is currently under renovation to take the property back to the way it appeared in the 1930s. The original structure is much older, but in...
Yesterday, Bellarmine University officially dedicated its newest dormitory dubbed Siena Secondo. The name is meant to evoke the Italian hilltop town known for its Piazza del Campo, or town square. The first residents arrived last month to the 145-bed...