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.
If our roundup of 16 multi-family housing projects being built around Louisville was a little too conventional for you, you may want to consider moving to Schnitzelburg. A team of investors is proposing a radically new type of housing...
Louisville is experiencing something of a residential boom as we enter 2016. Hundreds of new apartments are popping up in the city's urban neighborhoods seemingly every week, from Germantown to Downtown and Clifton to Butchertown to Nulu, there's no...
Renowned Kentucky farmer-author-poet-philosopher Wendell Berry will receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle, the organization has announced. "Now 81 and still productive, Berry is the author of eight novels, two short story collections, 28...
It's hard to miss the ghoulish screaming face jutting from the facade of 807 East Market Street in Nulu. It's the site of what will eventually become a bar and lounge called The Taj. And it's been a long time...
Branden Klayko’s recent article about the Fincastle Building reminded me of many warm feelings, even though I don’t think I have set foot in the building in at least twenty years. When I was a child, our family's internist, Dr....
Sharrows are the dregs of bike infrastructure—the scraps cities hand out when they can’t muster the will to implement exclusive space for bicycling. They may help with wayfinding, but do sharrows improve the safety of cycling at all? New research presented...
When I was a kid, no, well into adulthood, I've loved climbing trees. Always fascinated with architecture, trees are a sort of natural skyscrapers and a forest is nature's downtown. A campaign launched by TreesLouisville seeks to bring that joy...
With the Water Company Block now just a footnote in history, the massive $300 million Omni Hotel & Residences, half publicly funded, is ready to move forward. And we'll wager that the Texas-based company and top city and state officials...
Construction is well underway on Bardstown Road's newest bar and pub, HopCat. We last checked in at the site in October when crews were really starting to dig in, but now, the second-story addition is clearly visible on the...