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.
Despite a mishap here or there, the new bike lane along Sixth Street through Downtown Louisville and neighborhoods south has been open a couple weeks now. But as the lane begins to meld with the city's built landscape, let's consider...
Louisville's Portland neighborhood is going to the dogs—and that's a good thing, according to Gill Holland, one part of the Artist Row Portland (ARP), a for-profit company helping to restore the neighborhood's housing stock. When the ARP renovates a former crack...
  In Louisville, Kentucky's Smoketown neighborhood, on the corner of Logan Street and Lampton Street, sits the historic building known best as the Merchants' Ice Tower. To the casual observer, it appears as if this decaying structure is simply waiting...
  Over the years, Nulu has struggled to grow past its linear East Market Street arrangement. Despite its compact grid layout, the street's activity is still clustered around a few key blocks, with vast stretches of Main Street a block...
There is no shortage of public art in Shelby Park. Over the past few years, murals have been steadily popping up all over the neighborhood, on properties that have been vacant, abandoned, or otherwise unused. Public art, however, is more...
Tonight the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is holding a public meeting (details below) to gather input on the future of Chenoweth Lane in St. Matthews. There's no plan on the table right now—this is just an information gathering meeting—but...
An old warehouse on the western edge of Smoketown along quiet Floyd Street was converted into the Vu Guest House in in 2014. That $3 million project by George Stinson and Ed Lewis brought with it 55 hotel rooms and the eye of...
Preservation can sometimes be a heated, stressful endeavor for those fighting to maintain Louisville's heritage. It's easy to forget to take a step back and appreciate what makes standing up for history worthwhile. Janie-Rice Brother will be doing just that...
Bus stops in Louisville are usually nothing to brag about. Most often marked by little more than a pole in the ground, the city's transit riders put up with a lot just to get around without a car. But...