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IVY
STATION
Culver City, CA
Client: Lowe Enterprises, LA Metro and Culver City Redevelopment
Home to HBO’s West Coast headquarters, Ivy Station is a project a decade in the making. It was the first TOD project approved along the E Line, which runs from Santa Monica to DTLA. The 5.5 acres landscape abstracts the natural vernacular of the Ballona Creek and adjacent Baldwin Hills to create an immersive mixed-used district comprised by an event lawn, public plaza, and central spine to draw families, office tenants, hotel guests and commuters into the site.
COMMUNITY + A CACOPHONOUS STREETSCAPE
Charged with a creating a safe, comfortable pocket for outdoor activation protected from expansive lanes of traffic and nearby 10 Freeway, RELM designed an internally oriented landscape. Verdant interludes punctuate two green spines, one functioning as Culver City’s social living room and the other, private gardens for tenants and guests.
ACTIVATING PLACE
The vision behind Ivy Station was to create a communal gathering place activated by transit. When first designed, most of Culver City’s ‘open space’ was accounted for by outdoor dining. Ivy Station invites the community into the project, offering an array of public programming, day and night.
WATER PLAY
Paying homage to the natural water ways of Ballona Creek, RELM designed two different types of water features dumbbelling the Commons Area, an interactive splash pad and a terraced cascade. Each exudes a different energy and water play activity.
