Branden Klayko
After years of waiting it looks like a pedestrian bridge connecting the Belvedere with the Muhammad Ali Center plaza could soon be moving forward. The design for the pedestrian connector over Sixth Street designed by Joseph & Joseph Architects...
In the first three parts of this series, I discussed how Indiana so badly botched its negotiation with Kentucky on the Louisville bridges project that its share of the project went up by $200 million at the same time...
It's pretty ironic that the device most responsible for the destruction of our built environment—the automobile—could now help raise funds to save it. Preservation Kentucky is hoping to collect 900 applicants by the end of 2013 to establish a...
A small mixed-use commercial building that collapsed in September 2010 at 1401 Story Avenue at Webster Street will be rebuilt. Owner James Hennesy plans to build a new $140,000 building on the site that will match the previous structure...
This story is starting to get old, but another project under guise of community improving is tearing apart the future potential of West Louisville. The YMCA of Greater Louisville is set to build a new facility on Broadway between...
A two-story building at 1015 Bardstown Road just south of Highland Avenue is getting a facelift that will yield the permanent home to MozzaPi, a wood-fired, Neapolitan-style pizzeria (which initially opened as a food truck last year), with new...
The New York Times' new architecture critic Michael Kimmelman has been making waves with his coverage, not of the newest starchitect-designed showpieces, but of the critical urban issues that cities large and small are facing from public space to...
In previous installments in this series I highlighted how Indiana managed to increase its share of the Louisville bridges project by $200 million even as it bragged that the total price tag had gone down by $1.5 billion, how...
One of the most important developments in the country broke ground in Louisville in May 2011. The sheer size of the park system planned along Floyds Fork and the implications on the built form of the city. The the...