Platform Park

Angel City Lumber collaborated with Terremoto Landscape for Platform Park in Culver City, supplying Deodar Cedar and Coast Redwood for seating and platform elements. The project emphasizes tranquility and reflection, with locally sourced materials used for benches and cladding.

A simple park nestled under the LA Metro’s Culver City Station that encourages people to partake in the essential pleasure of being outside together. Platform Park in Culver City emerged from the hearts and minds of Terremoto Landscape. David Godshall of Terremoto describes an aspect of its vision: “A mellow, beautiful park that also softly provokes the user to make sense of the place on their own terms.” The wood species Terremoto chose for this project embodies just that. With local sourcing of paramount importance, Terremoto Landscape employed us to provide Deodar Cedar cladding, timber benches, and some benches of our own design as the seating options for the park.

Deodar Cedar and Coast Redwood were selected to usher this intention through seating and platform elements. If ever there were two species symbolic of tranquility and reflection, Deodar Cedar and Coast Redwood fit the bill. Deodar, or Devadaru, is from the forests of India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It has long been the sacred refuge of yogis and spiritual practitioners. Our California native Coast Redwood (along with Giant Sequoias) are equally mystical. With lifespans reaching thousands of years, these trees bring about ancient perspectives and have offered inspiration across civilizations, from the native Yuki people to the Beatniks of the 40s and 50s.

On a day free from the ever-present requirements of life, we hope you’ll have a sit at Platform Park on a Sherman Oaks Coast Redwood bench or a block platform clad in Benedict Canyon Deodar Cedar. Maybe you’ll absorb the perspective of a sacred tree, observe your surroundings, and let yourself be.