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.
A pair of tropical frogs has landed on West Main Street near the Louisville Science Center. West Main is quickly becoming quite the menagerie with plaster horses, pink plastic penguins, a model triceratops, a vampire bat, and now rainforest...
Workers pulled a giant engine from the rubble of the former LG&E Substation during demolition of the century old brick building. The massive contraption is believed to be part of an early space program here in Louisville that never...
The $40 million mixed-use development at the corner of Broadway and Dixie Highway has not officially started construction, but demolition of the old Phillip Morris site is definitely complete. Sitting like a giant grave marker on the former industrial...
The old Tonini Church Supply Building on the corner of Shelby Street and Gray Street in the Phoenix Hill Neighborhood might become housing for the mentally ill. A partnership between the New Directions Housing Corporation and the Wellspring House...
The sustainable architecture blog Jetson Green shows just how green an alley house can be. This example from from Seattle, Washington is rated LEED Platinum and includes such green features as solar hot water, radiant heat, a green roof,...
The ZirMed Towers on the corner of 9th Street and Market Street are undergoing installation of their curtain wall system. Crews are beginning on the lowest floors and working up, revealing its only a matter of time before the...
To those interested in the new Allied Health Building under construction on the downtown campus of the Jefferson Community & Technical College, a new construction cam has been installed bringing live updates from the giant hole in the ground. The...
The old Ursuline Convent called St. Angela Home in the Highlands was once home to the Center for Sacred Psychology and housed Catholic nuns teaching at nearby schools. Nearby residents recall the nuns walking single-file around the neighborhood and...
The new fire station under construction on Spring Street at Beargrass Creek has recently begun showing its brick. The new station will replace a century old station at the corner of Frankfort Avenue & Pope Street. The old Still Station...