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 icy devastation that descended on Louisville in the past week was, in the end, actually quite beautiful. Broken trees held in suspended animation and architecture coated in a sort of glazed icing were common sights around the city....
A second tower crane on the north-east corner of the construction site has been spotted sitting among a forest of concrete columns. Only the first segment of the crane has been placed, so we really can't call it towering......
The new salad lunch spot under construction on Market Street near Fifth Street was dealt a setback as a bright orange "Stop Work Order" was posted on the front door. What's the problem you ask? It doesn't appear to...
The City Council in Portland, Oregon seems go get it: more traffic capacity creates pollution and suburban sprawl. The Oregonian newspaper wrote up the debate over tolling a new Interstate 5 bridge in the city. Here's an excerpts from the article: Both...
We stopped by the site of that imminently "dangerous" building on Liberty Street in Phoenix Hill that was damaged in the windstorm. Scaffolding went up a little over a month ago and the old brick started to come down...
We just came across a glowing write up of Louisville neighborhoods from the public space group Project for Public Spaces. The article appeared on their Making Places blog yesterday and finds only one major fault with the River City:...
Bardstown Boaters need your help to plan a new Whitewater Park just south of Louisville. Here's some info on the meeting sent in from our friends at Backseat Sandbar: Bardstown Boaters are meeting tomorrow (Saturday, Jan. 24th) at 6pm to...
The construction of the new arena for the University of Louisville inadvertent (we think) got political today as crews installed a new tower crane in the giant crater we call the arena site. The problem you might ask? Seeing...
Two 19th century buildings once home to Wayside Christian Mission are in the early stages of a historic renovation. After the homeless shelter proposed demolishing the buildings last year, a group of investors led by local filmmaker and green-building...