Skyscrapers

Will Louisville Soon Lose Kentucky’s Tallest Building Title?

With site work about done and actual construction expected to begin next month on the CentrePointe tower in Lexington, could it mean the end...

Museum Plaza Falls Down, Climbs Up

While the actual Museum Plaza towers may not be going anywhere fast in this economy, there's still activity surrounding the project. Those colorful banners...

ZirMed Gateway Towers Terminate 9th Street

One of our favorite urban design techniques is the terminated vista. It's that rare occurrence where a road's view ends on a focal point,...

Topping Off At The Zirmed Gateway Towers

A ceremony was held this morning at the construction site of the Zirmed Gateway Towers where the top floor was poured marking the end...

Museum Plaza Losing Its International Edge

While the vision of Museum Plaza grows dim in these uncertain economic times where financing isn't easy to come by, the international media has...

Special Report: Inside The ZirMed Tower

As the ZirMed Gateway Tower inches ever skyward with a topping-out ceremony looming nearer, a Broken Sidewalk tipster sends us a few views from...

Museum Plaza Electric Tower Sprouts

It's really something when an electric pole becomes big news. When there's a 63-story, $450 million, starchitect designed mega-tower resting on the hopes and...

Chrysler Building Slaughters The Aegon Center

It's official, the results are in: the Broken Sidewalk readership hands down prefers New York's Chrysler Building to our home grown Aegon Center. Over...

Is The Aegon Center Louisville’s Chrysler Building?

The Chrysler Building may be nearly twice as tall and built over 60 years earlier, but hey, it's got to compete with all those...