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.
Had it been proposed today, the Puritan Apartments on the corner of Fourth Street and Ormsby Avenue in Old Louisville might have caused an uproar. When it opened in 1914, the six-story building was distinctly different from the detached, single-family homes that...
Here's a story you don't see everyday: a former fast-food outlet is being repurposed without its drive through. That's the news on the sharply acute corner of Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue, where Yang Kee Noodle recently unveiled plans...
Everyone knows the orange and bronze, the mirror ball, and the flags, at the corner of Market Street and Floyd Street in the Haymarket district in Downtown. It’s The Connection, of course, and it’s been a Louisville institution for more than...
This one could change the tone of East Market Street more than any other development else since Gill and Augusta Holland planted their Green Building in the forgotten, drive-through neighborhood, declaring the area Nulu. After two years of planning, tentative announcements,...
Go stand on the corner of East Broadway and Barret Avenue and you'll find yourself nowhere in particular. The two north corners are surface-level parking lots, the southeast corner is a spectacular, albeit windowless, brick storage warehouse, and the...
Last weekend, the Germantown Mill Lofts, actually located on the Schnitzelburg side of Goss Avenue, welcomed visitors to check out construction progress and gawk at a furnished model unit. Jennifer Chappell, a neighborhood resident, was among those to take a...
Research has found that particles from burning of coal and other fossil fuels are "far more dangerous than average" particulates that pollute the air, Sean Reilly reports for Environment & Energy News. And, "exposure to emissions from coal-fired power...
Louisville's most famous facade-without-a-building might be the Heigold House facade, currently adorning the northern terminus of Frankfort Avenue at River Road as a monument in the roadway. But what's the story behind the facade? Christian H. Heigold was born in...
Construction will begin next Wednesday, December 16 on New Albany's Breakwater apartment complex on the former Coyle Chevrolet site, 411 Spring Street. The $26.5 million project will bring 191 apartments in two new buildings and 1,650 square feet of...