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Jun 17, 2018
South Central Regional – Louisville Free Public Library Building
Design: JRA Architects

photographers : Brandon Stengel, Farm Kid Studios
South Central Regional – Louisville Free Public Library Building
The facility provides 100,000 nearby residents with an accessible, inviting, and healthy place to access, enjoy, and participate in information sharing.

Town Branch Commons in Lexington
Design: Scape

Town Branch is a long-forgotten creek in downtown Lexington – located by Vine Street, aka U.S. 25 – that was covered over with concrete in the 1930s as a flood control measure.

image courtesy of Scape

The creek will become the centerpiece of a 3.3-mile-long amalgam of pedestrian and bike trails, parks, and public spaces. The urban planning project by New York–based firm, Scape.

The Vine Street corridor is to be transfotrmed into a greenway with breathing room for pedestrians and bicyclists.

In places, return the waterway to the surface. Town Branch is the creek “upon whose banks Lexington was established in 1779,” according to a historical marker along the course of the invisible waterway. The text on the marker explains that merchandise once floated down the Ohio River and onto the creek, which also was home to a steamboat.

Jul 30, 2017
KMAC Museum Louisville
Architects: Christoff : Finio Architecture ; Associate Architects: K. Norman Berry Associates

photo © Kevin Kunstadt
KMAC Museum Louisville Building
The KMAC Museum was founded in 2001 in Louisville, Kentucky to build interest in the region’s craft heritage. Since then, the Museum’s mission has expanded, exploring the intersections between making and contemporary art.

21 Mar 2016
Speed Art Museum, Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky, USA2011-
Design: wHY architecture
The Speed Art Museum reopened its doors to the public on Saturday, March 12, 2016. Ghislain d’Humières, Director of the Speed Art Museum said, “The new Speed will be an inclusive and welcoming environment that will engage visitors of all ages in conversations with each other and with the works of art”.
More news about this building at wHY architecture

Rupp Arena, Lexington
2011-
Design: Space Group Architects, Oslo

image © Space Group Architects / Mir
Rupp Arena Kentucky
Norwegian architecture office chosen as the master planner for Lexington’s Arena, Arts and Entertainment District in Kentucky, USA, including the reinvention of Rupp Arena. Legendary Rupp Arena is the biggest venue made for the sole purpose of basketball in the country. The project will be led by founding partner Gary Bates (US).

Kentucky Architecture

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Kentucky Buildings, USA. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.

We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the state. The focus is on contemporary Kentucky buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

Major Kentucky Building Designs, alphabetical:

The Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge, One Roebling’s Way, Covington
Design: Studio Daniel Libeskind

photo © Michele Nastasi
The Ascent

Museum Plaza Louisville
Design: REX

Museum Plaza will change Louisville’s skyline. This is what it will look like upon completion in 2010.
(PRNewsFoto/Museum Plaza)
Kentucky’s Largest Ever Public-Private Project – skyscraper
Museum Plaza Louisville tower

University of Kentucky: Biomedical / Biological Sciences Research Building
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Design: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in association with A. M. Kinney + HERA
Construction Cost: $74.4m
Area: 185,000 sqft
Location: Limestone-Virginia precinct, University of Kentucky, Lexington

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Location: Kentucky, USA