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.
Tunnels might be the most intriguing type of infrastructure out there. Urban explorers crave them, they're hidden and shrouded in mystery, and we all have a bit of curiosity about how they're built and work, whether that tunnel is...
Call it a win for the Smoketown neighborhood. Mayor Greg Fischer and Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) Executive Director Tony Parrott have confirmed that the sewer agency will push to redesign the embattled Logan Street CSO Basin as an at-grade...
In one recent mid summer, the weeds growing through the cracks of of former Kaelin's Restaurant patio at Newburg Road and Speed Avenue were as tall as a person walking through the Deer Park neighborhood. But it appears that those weeds...
If you walk along West Main Street, you might not have ever noticed a humble concrete block warehouse set way back off the street behind a chain-link and barbed-wire fence. Located between 16th and 17th streets, the space was...
Where do you work in Louisville? While it's common to think the vast majority of folks work in Downtown, there are employment hubs located all around our city. Downtown is certainly the densest concentration of jobs, but as sprawl...
Landscape architecture is such a profoundly interesting field (no pun intended) because one project never does just one thing. Landscapes are the original multi-taskers. A single project might create a beautiful park, but behind the scenes, it's also helping...
There's been a lot of news about churches in Louisville, recently. Whether they're getting fixed up, figuring out new ways to deal with old buildings, or being repurposed into apartments, offices, mixed-use, or coworking space, the church is the proving to...
It sure looks like the architects behind Louisville's KFC Yum! Center are pushing a very similar design for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks. But we'll let you be the judge in our poll at the end of...
Used tires are a huge environmental hazard, contributing to varied problems of fires, urban blight, and increased mosquito populations, among others. But the Commonwealth of Kentucky hopes you might have an idea for how to use shredded rubber from...