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.
This morning at 10:00a.m., TARC, the Transit Authority of River City, and Mayor Greg Fischer will officially launch Louisville's next generation bus, the all-electric Zero Bus, which replaces the Toonerville trolley buses that run on familiar circuits throughout Downtown Louisville. The...
If you haven't heard, Louisville is now part of the international Creative Mornings community. And the first meetup is scheduled for this Friday, January 16, 2015. Here's a bit of background info on the group from the Creative Mornings' web site: Creative...
Louisville's De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop, located on Shelby Street between Main and Market streets in Nulu, got some good news this morning: they were the only Kentucky architecture firm—and one of only 11 nationally—to receive a 2015 American...
Where I live in Brooklyn, the sun will set today at the depressingly early time of 4:45p.m. In Louisville, the sun sets tonight at 5:40p.m. That's an extra hour of sunlight between the eastern and western edges of the...
Last year, 27-year-old Teddy Abrams took the helm of the Louisville Orchestra, becoming the youngest conductor of a major American orchestra. His enthusiasm and willingness to take risks is already paying off with the largest and smallest shows in the orchestra's...
Louisville made a lot of progress toward making the city more bikeable in 2014. A lot of that success is due to the hard work of the city's top advocacy group, Bicycling for Louisville (B4L). According to the group, last year, Louisville...
We're lucky in that Fourth Street through Downtown Louisville has a fairly intact street wall. It's not all historic, it's not all pretty, and certainly not all of it contributes to a vibrant streetscape, but for the most part...
When renovation work began on an historic commercial building at the corner of Broadway and First Street last month, frantic tipsters and demolition-weary preservationists wondered if Louisville had lost another one. This time, however, the story has a happy ending, as...
Renovation work at the Hilltop Theater in Clifton is just about complete and the rumors are swirling as to what restaurant tenant might take the building's 5,000 square feet. Business First reported in early 2013 that local businessman and...