Skyscrapers

Thinking about skyscrapers at Lexington and Grinstead

Three towers have been proposed to rise in a woebegone patch of asphalt scattered with several local businesses where three Louisville neighborhoods meet. Jefferson Development Group...

Best: Choosing Michael Graves to design the Humana Building gave Louisville...

  A world-class architectural landmark, the Humana Building, sets a high aesthetic standard for Downtown Louisville. Wendell Cherry and David Jones announced on May 28th, 1982,...

City leaders celebrate ceremonial groundbreaking for the 30-story Omni Louisville Hotel

Downtown Louisville's Omni Hotel & Residences—now called the Omni Louisville Hotel—is officially underway. The mega-project held a ceremonial groundbreaking at the corner of Second...

Developer Jonathan Holtzman explains the changes in progress at SoBro’s 800...

The familiar turquoise skyscraper on the corner of Fourth Street and York Street has an updated name—the 800 Tower City Apartments—and will soon have...

Renovations planned at two of Louisville’s central residential high rises

The early 1960s saw a massive influx of apartments into the core of Louisville. In 1962, today's 17-story Barrington Place Apartments were completed as...

This proposal for an enormous “millennium” skyscraper in Newport never took...

Some of the most ostentatious construction projects are proposed, but never get off the ground. Work may begin, but projects languish unfinished for a...

Kindred’s Downtown expansion would be better suited for the suburbs

On December 11th, city and state officials—Mayor Greg Fischer and Governor Steve Beshear among them—lined up to praise Louisville's latest economic development project: a...

Jefferson Development Group tries again with a shorter Willow Grande in...

Developer Kevin Cogan and the Cherokee Triangle Association (CTA) have been butting heads for seven years over Jefferson Development Group's proposed Willow Grande condo tower. The...

Michael Graves Dressed as the Humana Building

Growing up in Louisville, I was vaguely aware that the Humana Building on the corner of Fifth and Main streets was an important building,...