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.
Just a standard construction update. Kindred Healthcare's suburban-style addition to its Fourth Street and Broadway campus is moving right along. The six story building built of steel with poured concrete floors long ago reached its final height, 97 feet, and...
It's being described by officials as "an innovative new pilot project in Downtown Louisville," a "cutting edge initiative," and "a brand new way to deal with old solid, surface paved parking lots." It's hailed as a major step forward...
The concrete underground parking garage and first two floors of the Main & Clay Apartments have been finished and construction crews have switched to wood construction for the remaining five floors. Located at the northwest corner of East Main...
Smoketown has undergone a major transformation, thanks in large part to a HOPE VI development that remade the barracks-style Sheppard Square Homes into a New Urbanist vision of a historic cityscape. The traditional-style architecture, while quite different than what...
Construction in Nulu will be more active than ever as two hotels will both soon be under construction. We've known about both hotel projects for a while now—a Home2Suites Hotel by Weyland Associates and an AC Hotel Nulu by Creation...
Bike Louisville, the city's agency covering bikes and pedestrians, is hoping 2017 will shape up to be a big year for biking in the city. Following a number of open houses in late March where officials including coordinator Rolf Eisinger...
The apartment complex rising on the former Mercy Academy site at 1172 East Broadway is beginning to look like a real building. On a recent visit, crews were busy framing the four-story, wooden structure, particularly its sloped roofline. Take...
Short of demolishing the tangled steel and concrete megalith hovering over Main Street between Ninth and Tenth streets, we're stuck with the so-called Ninth Street Divide. That rift in the urban fabric is too tangible, too visual—too visceral—to be overcome...
Three towers have been proposed to rise in a woebegone patch of asphalt scattered with several local businesses where three Louisville neighborhoods meet. Jefferson Development Group (JDG), headed by developer Kevin Cogan, is planning apartments, condos, office space, retail, a hotel,...