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.
Husband and wife team, Rick and Bella Portaro Kueber, are behind the proposal to build six shipping container apartments on the corner of Shelby Street and Ash Street. Plans for the so-called Schnitzelburg Container Homes were unveiled last month...
A town of 7,300 in southeastern Kentucky has revitalized its downtown through a local-food renaissance. Corbin's main street, once filled with vacant buildings and few businesses, is now thriving, adding 20 new businesses since 2012 while reducing a 40...
A wedge-shaped park in Jeffersonville has quite the story behind it. Colston Park, across Mulberry Street from Big Four Station Park and the entrance to the Big Four Bridge, is the final resting place for up to 700 unmarked...
Louisville cleaned up in the 2015 AIA Kentucky Design Excellence Awards, with seven of the eight winning projects announced by the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects located in our region. Three honor awards and four merit awards were given...
"Reducing U.S. climate emissions enough to avoid a 2-degree Celsius increase in global warming could prevent up to 175,000 pollution-related premature deaths nationwide by 2030 and generate health benefits of about $250 billion annually," says a study by Duke...
This month, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) issued more than $1.8 billion in federal funds to 3,100 housing authorities across the country in an effort to modernize the nation's public housing supply. Kentucky received $31,793,131 with $8,304,784 going to...
The people of Smoketown have been ignored. As one of twelve neighborhoods scheduled to receive a combined sewer overflow (CSO) basin, the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) has designated Smoketown as the only site to receive an above-ground, concrete structure equipped...
Clarke & Loomis's exuberant Gothic-Revival St. Peter’s United Church of Christ still stands tall over West Jefferson Street after 121 years in the Russell neighborhood. It's one of a handful of pre–World War II structures that were spared the wrecking ball...
If a crossing guard isn't safe on Louisville streets, there's little hope for the rest of us. On Thursday, February 18, a person was struck by a motorist in front of Male High School, 4409 Preston Highway, around 7:00a.m. The incident...