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.
In part one of this series I examined how Indiana managed to give away $1.7 billion to the state of Kentucky in renegotiating the project cost split for the Ohio River Bridges Project at Louisville. Despite a series of...
Following up on the new sculpture-slash-bike-rack at The Green Building called "As the Old Crow Flies" by Jacob Heustis, a few tipsters have written in with mixed thoughts on the functionality of the piece as a bike rack, but...
- Indiana gives away $1.7 billion to Kentucky - - Indiana’s costs up by $200 million while total project costs decline by $1.5 billion - - $432 million diverted from other projects to close funding gap recreated by Indiana’s botched negotiators...
I took the opportunity over the holiday break to examine the design possibilities of a traffic circle, or roundabout, at the intersection of Baxter Avenue and Broadway. I arrived at a formal treatment of the space. This is a...
Ride on down to the Green Building at 732 East Market Street tomorrow night for the First Friday Trolley Hop where Nulu legend Gill Holland and artist Jacob Heustis will be unveiling Louisville's latest bike rack sculpture. Holland came...
For Thanksgiving in 2011, my wife and I drove 900 miles to visit friends and family in St. Louis, Missouri. We drove an extra 50 miles to go the southern route via I-64 past Charleston, West Virginia and Lexington,...
In what's being billed as the first major renovation of Downtown Hyatt since it was built in 1978 is in fact cementing in place a mistake we had hoped was left behind in the 1970s. We're not concerned with...
While studying preventive medicine, Dr. Mike Evans began looking for the single thing that has the biggest impact on our health. As you might expect, the answer has to do with exercise, but not a triathlon or vigorous run...
The Transit Authority of River City posted a great collection of vintage buses to their Flickr page detailing the evolution of Louisville's bus system over the past half century. From the fleur-de-lis patterned "Downtowner" circulator to the bright-red TARC...