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.
Crews at the mixed-use, mixed-income Shelby Street Apartments on the corner of East Broadway were pouring concrete columns on the structure's ground-level facade that will mimic the neighborhood's historic limestone facades and preparing to begin laying thousands of red...
A couple weeks ago we told you about a development on First Street between Main and Market Streets that didn't seem to be going anywhere fast. We sat down with developer, entrepreneur, and Broken Sidewalk reader Dan Borsch to...
The Courier-Journal reported this weekend that the Speed Museum has announced it has narrowed its list of architects down to eight for the design of a new addition to their facility on Third Street at the University of Louisville....
The Kraemer Paper Building on Clay Street between Jefferson Street and Market Street has been slowly crumbling over the last few years. The building is actually an old German church with a stone sign reading "Zions Kirche, Der Ersten...
Butchertown has been known for the wafting smell of slaughtered pigs, unbearable on a hot summer day (thanks Swift!), but lurking on Washington Street near Campbell Street is a smelly menace most notable for its unusual structural profile and...
The forlorn limestone-clad, 4-story building sitting vacant on East Market Street between Preston Street and Jackson Street will soon be sporting some new scaffolding and construction fences. The project calls for 16 lofts above 3,200 square feet of retail...
It's been a while since we checked in with that huge parking garage going up on the corner of Clay Street and Muhammad Ali Blvd. The structure is now fully three-dimensional; that is to say it's climbing its way...
The University of Louisville plans to build a 10-story addition to the Ambulatory Care Building on the corner of Chestnut Street and Jackson Street. The project is essentially an efficient box that fills its entire site mid-block, just west...
  We spotted this painted patchwork Volvo station wagon in the SoBro neighborhood. Every square inch of the car has been hand painted with whimsical textures and patterns. Unfortunately, not all art cars come with papers taped to their windows...