Downtown - East

Downtown - East

Adding Mass on Market Street with New Nucleus Building

Last week, officials celebrated the topping off of the University of Louisville's Nucleus building on the corner of Market and Floyd streets and announced...

Mayor Fischer Vetoes Changes to Preservation Ordinance

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of a historic protest against the demolition of Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Over 100 well-dressed picketers marched...

Photographic Archives Help Solve Architectural Mysteries

When working with historical photographs of a town or city, it’s exciting to come across images of recognizable buildings. This is partly why so...

Time Capsule: Vermont American Building in 1948

Last month, we took a look at the portion of the old Vermont American building at Main and Jackson streets that's being demolished to...

12-Lane Highway Gets Started With Ceremonial Wrecking of Downtown

The destruction of Downtown Louisville by twelve lanes of steel and concrete—about 280 feet wide when massive shoulders are added in—began yesterday with the ceremonial...

Twin Towers on Main Street To Be Delayed Another Three Years

A long-awaited development first announced in 2007 on the corner of Main and Jackson streets is set to be delayed another three years. Jefferson...

Students From Yale Study Boutique Manufacturing, Bourbon in Louisville

American manufacturing may be on the rocks, but Deborah Berke, principal at Deborah Berke & Partners and designer of the 21c Museum Hotel, believes...

Architecture Critic Calls for Reevaluating Parking Lots

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...

Louisville: A Tale of One City

For Thanksgiving in 2011, my wife and I drove 900 miles to visit friends and family in St. Louis, Missouri. We drove an extra...