For the Culver City residence, the landscape was designed to highlight the modern architecture’s perfectly orchestrated outdoor rooms on axis around the property while complimenting the lifestyle of this growing young family.  For the front yard, our clients wanted to rethink what a suburban landscape could be.  Moving beyond the typical mowed lawn, we explored a more sustainable low-maintenance solution.   We designed a meadow with ornamental grasses, gravel and olive trees enveloping the main pedestrian entry of concrete pavers and a terrace off the breakfast nook.  Low cor-ten steel fencing, and an entry gate provides a sense of enclosure while not turning its back to the neighborhood.  Evergreen creeping fig vines were planted to cover the entire first floor level to both ground the residence to the landscape and soften its geometry.  A sculptural Japanese black pine is the focal point for one of the interior courtyards whose terminus is a backyard bookended with a green wall of Podocarpus privacy hedges and grasses.