Branden Klayko

1981 POSTS 381 COMMENTS
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.
It's been a while since this was announced, so we decided to round up the talk across the internet about the incoming Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, to see what urban enthusiasts and progressive transportation gurus are thinking about...
Louisville made it into another ranking recently, although this time it's a bit of bad news. The Mill Creek Station coal power plant in far southwest Jefferson County was listed among the top 50 worst sites for toxic chemicals...
The buildings in New Albany have gone anthropomorphic, or so say the folks over at NA Confidential. We think someone seriously needs to make some large bushy eyebrows and find a glue gun: "I've been trying for weeks to...
Mark your calendars for Halloween 2010. That's right, the new downtown arena will officially open at 11:40 pm on Halloween in 2010 according to the Cardinal Countdown Clock posted on the corner of Second and Main streets. The clock...
Here's another classic Keep Louisville Weird moment (or should it be Keep Louisville Trashy?). We spotted this chair perched high atop a street tree on Kentucky Street just west of Barret Avenue in front of the old Quill's Coffee...
No, we're not talking about 8664.org ... yet. First up is the crumbling Harrods Creek Bridge on River Road that closed recently. Yesterday, the mayor's office revived plans to widen the bridge to two lanes despite a lawsuit from...
Here's an interesting video from Streetfilms with bike mechanics Hal Ruzal and Kerri Martin as they walk around the streets of New York City grading how well bikes are locked and how a thief will try to steal all or...
The construction fences have been removed from the Fleur-de-Lis condos on the corner of Preston and Main streets, revealing a streetscape long barred from pedestrians. The last time we remember walking along this stretch of Main Street, the old...
Yesterday, crews installed new street trees along Hancock Street and Muhammad Ali Blvd. in the Medical Center. You can see in the photos the tree boxes are large, and small metal brackets at the perimeter indicate a metal tree...