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 Ohio River is the reason we're all here, really. Had it not been for that 25 foot drop in elevation we call the Falls of the Ohio, riverboats could have just sailed right on past the site where...
It appears Metro Louisville called Columbus, Ohio–developer Edwards Companies's bluff and won. Sheldon Shafer at the Courier-Journal has the big news today that those developers, who recently threatened to pull the plug on two major projects on East Broadway...
Around 3:30a.m. on a Tuesday morning in July 2014, The Tavern, an Old Louisville watering hole, caught fire. The blaze was the work of an arsonist who set a number of trash cans on fire in the neighborhood that...
It's official! Smoketown's Logan Street CSO Interceptor, a project by the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) to fix Louisville's combined sewer overflow (CSO) problem, is going to be built at grade with a park on top. And that's good news...
There’s good news out of the Senate committee responsible for doling out transportation funds. Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee okayed a small increase in TIGER funding, according to Stephen Lee Davis at Transportation for America. TIGER is the program that allows...
There's been a lot of excitement since the long-awaited Move Louisville plan was released this month. And that's appropriate given that this document will help shape how Louisville grows over the next two decades—whether it will be more business...
When you're zooming through Spaghetti Junction for most of the day when there's no traffic, it might seem like the tangle of highway ramps isn't really that big. Or if you're stuck in construction traffic, it might seem like...
Among the flashy renderings Detroit developer Village Green released of planned changes to the 800 City Tower Apartments was a dramatic view of the mid-century skyscraper with fireworks in the distance through the Louisville skyline. And we can only...
It's no secret that the University of Louisville has been steadily remaking the streetscapes around its campus into something very university branded. There's a lot of red, a lot of cardinal logos, and it's quite unified. Now the University of...