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.
What special ties are there between Columbus Day and the SoBro neighborhood you are asking? Absolutely none. We did find the abandoned Columbia Manufacturing warehouse sitting strong on the corner of Ninth Street and Breckinridge Street, though, and that...
9:00 AM: The main fountain on the Muhammad Ali Center plaza has been turned on this morning and is apparently full of soapy foam. Maybe they are cleaning off all the dust it has collected this summer? Several workers...
So this has been going on for some time and it is really one of the most irritating things the city has done in a while. This summer, the Louisville Metro Police station at the corner of Bardstown Road...
It's really something when an electric pole becomes big news. When there's a 63-story, $450 million, starchitect designed mega-tower resting on the hopes and dreams of the possibility city behind it, it becomes just that: big news. The Museum...
We spotted this car a while back in the Highlands decked out from head-to-toe in ear-X-tacy stickers. You might remember back in August that Paste magazine ranked the independent Louisville music store among the "17 Coolest Record Stores In America."...
The Republic Plaza renovation project converting an extremely ugly concrete office building into a slightly less ugly concrete office building has advanced a step. Crews this week began painting the facade, swapping the peeling white paint for a new...
Broken Sidewalk has gained exclusive access to the details surrounding the new O'Shea's restaurant soon to be under construction on Main Street in between the proposed Whiskey Row Lofts and the Iron Quarter. The four-story limestone clad building facing...
Yesterday it was announced that Louisville's West Main Street was selected as one of the Top Ten Great Streets in America, and what a great designation. But is Main Street really there yet? Does it currently have what it...
It's official, the results are in: the Broken Sidewalk readership hands down prefers New York's Chrysler Building to our home grown Aegon Center. Over the past week, you voted three-to-one in favor of the Chrysler Building in our first...