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Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

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The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

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1981 1978

Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

2007 Member National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide National Meeting 2005 PractitionerS Getting Details ASLA National Meeting

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project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

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reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

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Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

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City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

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Raymond Jungles 242 5th Street Miami Florida 130 Phone 3058586777 raymondraymondjunglescom

1981 1978

Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

2007 Member National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide National Meeting 2005 PractitionerS Getting Details ASLA National Meeting

Recent Honors Awards Recognition 2009 Award Excellence Florida Nurserymen Growers Landscape AssociationJupiter

Environmental Award Professional uv

Hammock 2008 B Award

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Chapter Excellence Florida Chapter A--

2008 Power Merit Florida Chapter ASLA

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Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities ASLA Design

2006 Fellow ASLA 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of Florida

Practicing landscape architecture from its studio on the banks Miami River downtown Florida Raymond Jungles is as a dynamic award-winning landscape architecture firm in I firm has a well-managed and highly productive team that is Vu on providing the highest quality of professional to on a project types including residential botanical hotels and office and condominium projshyects public malls and 1J1aLagt

The team approach to and service

the principal and professional

that all receIve attention and creative design talent client from the collective process of

and critique staff

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timeframe the like) ects The production of pursues its contractual responsibilities and degree and with no compromise to the design

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1 Ward (Miami 2 Morada (Islamorada FL) 3 Miller Garden FL) 4 Naples Botanical Garden (Naples FL) 5 1111 Lincoln Road (Miami Beach FL)

Relevant Project List

Road Mall location Lincoln Road Miami Beach Fl size project cost NIA fee $160000

project 1100

specific environmental Our utilize native fertilizer irrigation while natural habitat

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reference

City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

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Raymond Jungles 242 5th Street Miami Florida 130 Phone 3058586777 raymondraymondjunglescom

1981 1978

Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

2007 Member National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide National Meeting 2005 PractitionerS Getting Details ASLA National Meeting

Recent Honors Awards Recognition 2009 Award Excellence Florida Nurserymen Growers Landscape AssociationJupiter

Environmental Award Professional uv

Hammock 2008 B Award

Award Award Honor Chapter Award of

Chapter Excellence Florida Chapter A--

2008 Power Merit Florida Chapter ASLA

Florida International Stars of Award DCOTA - Design Center of the Americas Landscape Design 2007 Award of Florida Chapter Cornfeld

2006 Fellow National Council of 2005

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Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities ASLA Design

2006 Fellow ASLA 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of Florida

Practicing landscape architecture from its studio on the banks Miami River downtown Florida Raymond Jungles is as a dynamic award-winning landscape architecture firm in I firm has a well-managed and highly productive team that is Vu on providing the highest quality of professional to on a project types including residential botanical hotels and office and condominium projshyects public malls and 1J1aLagt

The team approach to and service

the principal and professional

that all receIve attention and creative design talent client from the collective process of

and critique staff

While creative in of their undertakings our staff views which based considerations (materials selection

the conceptualization and product is 111 -~-HIUU commitment to our clients

not only as an endeavor but also as an intellectual

timeframe the like) ects The production of pursues its contractual responsibilities and degree and with no compromise to the design

of our

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generate and tools necessary to build unique botanically rich landscapes through om commitment to sustainable design and development we strive to contribute to structme of the sustain us all

Raymond Jungles understands value and vital role ofdelivering an project on and the defined budget Carefully collaborative efforts with project consultants and the

of design and cost are some of the forces and principles of

bull ect that the undertakes has undertaken various complex and demanding projects over of its at multiple residential hospitality master plan and public work

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Raymond Inc each project within a context that is ecologically environmentally responsive particularly attentive to existing This approach has repeatedly demon-

Jungles recognizes LEED process as an important tool to design ecological landshyscapes Nielsen Douglas Thompson and are among LEED Accredited sionals with design The staff of Raymond Jungles commits to design with

to utilize certifiable and construction

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practice prevailing grading methods to exceSSlve run and the

Other Raymond Jungles Inc projects contain

1 Ward (Miami 2 Morada (Islamorada FL) 3 Miller Garden FL) 4 Naples Botanical Garden (Naples FL) 5 1111 Lincoln Road (Miami Beach FL)

Relevant Project List

Road Mall location Lincoln Road Miami Beach Fl size project cost NIA fee $160000

project 1100

specific environmental Our utilize native fertilizer irrigation while natural habitat

use of storm water order to reduce irrigation of Along design techniques Raymond

certification qualities

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references

project location size project cost fee scope

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reference

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Posted on Sun May 09 2010 u s _ c - - 0 ~ 0 01 Vl

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confirm g ~ ~ ~ landscapes power to transport us B~ ~I ~ u

c c c ltt ~ 8 0 ~

By BETH DUNLOP tC1I -c ~I ~ w Vl

Special to The Miami Herald - tl ~

E 0 E c 0 u

Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

httpwwwmiamiheraldcoml20 1 010509v-print1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 10

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

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1981 1978

Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

2007 Member National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide National Meeting 2005 PractitionerS Getting Details ASLA National Meeting

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Member I National Resource Council Member I Club

Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities ASLA Design

2006 Fellow ASLA 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of Florida

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Relevant Project List

Road Mall location Lincoln Road Miami Beach Fl size project cost NIA fee $160000

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City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

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Raymond Jungles 242 5th Street Miami Florida 130 Phone 3058586777 raymondraymondjunglescom

1981 1978

Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

2007 Member National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide National Meeting 2005 PractitionerS Getting Details ASLA National Meeting

Recent Honors Awards Recognition 2009 Award Excellence Florida Nurserymen Growers Landscape AssociationJupiter

Environmental Award Professional uv

Hammock 2008 B Award

Award Award Honor Chapter Award of

Chapter Excellence Florida Chapter A--

2008 Power Merit Florida Chapter ASLA

Florida International Stars of Award DCOTA - Design Center of the Americas Landscape Design 2007 Award of Florida Chapter Cornfeld

2006 Fellow National Council of 2005

Resort

2002

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2001 Frederic Award Award

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Membership in Allied Organizations MemberlMiami Art Museum MemberlNew World Symphony

I Florida Native Plant Member I Tree ~OICIelrv Member I Fairchild Tropical Garden Member I Kampong I

I Key Tropical Botanical uvuv I Museum ofModem Art

Member I National Resource Council Member I Club

Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities ASLA Design

2006 Fellow ASLA 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of Florida

Practicing landscape architecture from its studio on the banks Miami River downtown Florida Raymond Jungles is as a dynamic award-winning landscape architecture firm in I firm has a well-managed and highly productive team that is Vu on providing the highest quality of professional to on a project types including residential botanical hotels and office and condominium projshyects public malls and 1J1aLagt

The team approach to and service

the principal and professional

that all receIve attention and creative design talent client from the collective process of

and critique staff

While creative in of their undertakings our staff views which based considerations (materials selection

the conceptualization and product is 111 -~-HIUU commitment to our clients

not only as an endeavor but also as an intellectual

timeframe the like) ects The production of pursues its contractual responsibilities and degree and with no compromise to the design

of our

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generate and tools necessary to build unique botanically rich landscapes through om commitment to sustainable design and development we strive to contribute to structme of the sustain us all

Raymond Jungles understands value and vital role ofdelivering an project on and the defined budget Carefully collaborative efforts with project consultants and the

of design and cost are some of the forces and principles of

bull ect that the undertakes has undertaken various complex and demanding projects over of its at multiple residential hospitality master plan and public work

proJ-

Raymond Inc each project within a context that is ecologically environmentally responsive particularly attentive to existing This approach has repeatedly demon-

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to utilize certifiable and construction

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strated om understanding and commitment to plants to quantifiably use of

practice prevailing grading methods to exceSSlve run and the

Other Raymond Jungles Inc projects contain

1 Ward (Miami 2 Morada (Islamorada FL) 3 Miller Garden FL) 4 Naples Botanical Garden (Naples FL) 5 1111 Lincoln Road (Miami Beach FL)

Relevant Project List

Road Mall location Lincoln Road Miami Beach Fl size project cost NIA fee $160000

project 1100

specific environmental Our utilize native fertilizer irrigation while natural habitat

use of storm water order to reduce irrigation of Along design techniques Raymond

certification qualities

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references

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Posted on Sun May 09 2010 u s _ c - - 0 ~ 0 01 Vl

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c c c ltt ~ 8 0 ~

By BETH DUNLOP tC1I -c ~I ~ w Vl

Special to The Miami Herald - tl ~

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Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

httpwwwmiamiheraldcom20 1 010509v-print 1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 I 0

Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

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1981 1978

Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

2007 Member National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide National Meeting 2005 PractitionerS Getting Details ASLA National Meeting

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Relevant Project List

Road Mall location Lincoln Road Miami Beach Fl size project cost NIA fee $160000

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specific environmental Our utilize native fertilizer irrigation while natural habitat

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City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

httpwwwmiamiheraldcoml20 1 010509v-print1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 10

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

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bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull record in connection with tem RE6 on 05-13-10

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Submitted into the public record in connection with item

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

Raymond Jungles 242 5th Street Miami Florida 130 Phone 3058586777 raymondraymondjunglescom

1981 1978

Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

2007 Member National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide National Meeting 2005 PractitionerS Getting Details ASLA National Meeting

Recent Honors Awards Recognition 2009 Award Excellence Florida Nurserymen Growers Landscape AssociationJupiter

Environmental Award Professional uv

Hammock 2008 B Award

Award Award Honor Chapter Award of

Chapter Excellence Florida Chapter A--

2008 Power Merit Florida Chapter ASLA

Florida International Stars of Award DCOTA - Design Center of the Americas Landscape Design 2007 Award of Florida Chapter Cornfeld

2006 Fellow National Council of 2005

Resort

2002

LL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN IGN TEAM

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2001 Frederic Award Award

I Dunn

Membership in Allied Organizations MemberlMiami Art Museum MemberlNew World Symphony

I Florida Native Plant Member I Tree ~OICIelrv Member I Fairchild Tropical Garden Member I Kampong I

I Key Tropical Botanical uvuv I Museum ofModem Art

Member I National Resource Council Member I Club

Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities ASLA Design

2006 Fellow ASLA 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of Florida

Practicing landscape architecture from its studio on the banks Miami River downtown Florida Raymond Jungles is as a dynamic award-winning landscape architecture firm in I firm has a well-managed and highly productive team that is Vu on providing the highest quality of professional to on a project types including residential botanical hotels and office and condominium projshyects public malls and 1J1aLagt

The team approach to and service

the principal and professional

that all receIve attention and creative design talent client from the collective process of

and critique staff

While creative in of their undertakings our staff views which based considerations (materials selection

the conceptualization and product is 111 -~-HIUU commitment to our clients

not only as an endeavor but also as an intellectual

timeframe the like) ects The production of pursues its contractual responsibilities and degree and with no compromise to the design

of our

by which we aim to better understand the relationship between the natural and built environment individual whether or small a Our passion in the of a set

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bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull public splces

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bull us to further investigate and shape our approach and attitude the Df(neishybull

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research tool that u Architecture Viewing

ecology Architecture as an art form that is applied through

bullbull environmentalism architecture culture and art general

generate and tools necessary to build unique botanically rich landscapes through om commitment to sustainable design and development we strive to contribute to structme of the sustain us all

Raymond Jungles understands value and vital role ofdelivering an project on and the defined budget Carefully collaborative efforts with project consultants and the

of design and cost are some of the forces and principles of

bull ect that the undertakes has undertaken various complex and demanding projects over of its at multiple residential hospitality master plan and public work

proJ-

Raymond Inc each project within a context that is ecologically environmentally responsive particularly attentive to existing This approach has repeatedly demon-

Jungles recognizes LEED process as an important tool to design ecological landshyscapes Nielsen Douglas Thompson and are among LEED Accredited sionals with design The staff of Raymond Jungles commits to design with

to utilize certifiable and construction

bull scope Collaborative design with architectural bull redesign west entry creating a DeCItSln bull and constraints for public promenade bull __________________ ___________p_la_n_ting hard_sc_a_p_e_d_e_si_g_n__w_a_w_r_fu_a_t_m_e_s

bull FLAT I N PARK ESIGN D IGN TEAMbull BRie

bull

strated om understanding and commitment to plants to quantifiably use of

practice prevailing grading methods to exceSSlve run and the

Other Raymond Jungles Inc projects contain

1 Ward (Miami 2 Morada (Islamorada FL) 3 Miller Garden FL) 4 Naples Botanical Garden (Naples FL) 5 1111 Lincoln Road (Miami Beach FL)

Relevant Project List

Road Mall location Lincoln Road Miami Beach Fl size project cost NIA fee $160000

project 1100

specific environmental Our utilize native fertilizer irrigation while natural habitat

use of storm water order to reduce irrigation of Along design techniques Raymond

certification qualities

bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull

references

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

------------------------------------------------------------shybull BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM

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Bachelors ofArchitecture University of Miami 2009

Florida International University 2009 Member ASLA

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Bench parks confirm landscapes power to transport us Page 1 of 3

Posted on Sun May 09 2010 u s _ c - - 0 ~ 0 01 Vl

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confirm g ~ ~ ~ landscapes power to transport us B~ ~I ~ u

c c c ltt ~ 8 0 ~

By BETH DUNLOP tC1I -c ~I ~ w Vl

Special to The Miami Herald - tl ~

E 0 E c 0 u

Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

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Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

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Raymond Jungles 242 5th Street Miami Florida 130 Phone 3058586777 raymondraymondjunglescom

1981 1978

Landscape Architecture University of Florida Arts Miami-Dade Community College

Registration State Florida Landscape Architect 856 UC1ODl~r 1982

Professional Activities 2006-2009 Fellow National ASLA -vv of Fellows 1983-2009 Member ASLA 1981-1 ASLA 1978-1981 Student ASLA 2008 Juror Dawntown Miami Waterworks ~~HTVCvTT

2007 Member National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide National Meeting 2005 PractitionerS Getting Details ASLA National Meeting

Recent Honors Awards Recognition 2009 Award Excellence Florida Nurserymen Growers Landscape AssociationJupiter

Environmental Award Professional uv

Hammock 2008 B Award

Award Award Honor Chapter Award of

Chapter Excellence Florida Chapter A--

2008 Power Merit Florida Chapter ASLA

Florida International Stars of Award DCOTA - Design Center of the Americas Landscape Design 2007 Award of Florida Chapter Cornfeld

2006 Fellow National Council of 2005

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I Florida Native Plant Member I Tree ~OICIelrv Member I Fairchild Tropical Garden Member I Kampong I

I Key Tropical Botanical uvuv I Museum ofModem Art

Member I National Resource Council Member I Club

Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities ASLA Design

2006 Fellow ASLA 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of Florida

Practicing landscape architecture from its studio on the banks Miami River downtown Florida Raymond Jungles is as a dynamic award-winning landscape architecture firm in I firm has a well-managed and highly productive team that is Vu on providing the highest quality of professional to on a project types including residential botanical hotels and office and condominium projshyects public malls and 1J1aLagt

The team approach to and service

the principal and professional

that all receIve attention and creative design talent client from the collective process of

and critique staff

While creative in of their undertakings our staff views which based considerations (materials selection

the conceptualization and product is 111 -~-HIUU commitment to our clients

not only as an endeavor but also as an intellectual

timeframe the like) ects The production of pursues its contractual responsibilities and degree and with no compromise to the design

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to utilize certifiable and construction

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Other Raymond Jungles Inc projects contain

1 Ward (Miami 2 Morada (Islamorada FL) 3 Miller Garden FL) 4 Naples Botanical Garden (Naples FL) 5 1111 Lincoln Road (Miami Beach FL)

Relevant Project List

Road Mall location Lincoln Road Miami Beach Fl size project cost NIA fee $160000

project 1100

specific environmental Our utilize native fertilizer irrigation while natural habitat

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certification qualities

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references

project location size project cost fee scope

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reference

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

httpwwwmiamiheraldcom20 1 010509v-print 1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 I 0

Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

httpwwwmiamiheraldcoml20 1 010509v-print1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 10

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

httpwwwmiamiheraldcomJ20 1 00509v-printl1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 511 0201 0

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2001 Frederic Award Award

I Dunn

Membership in Allied Organizations MemberlMiami Art Museum MemberlNew World Symphony

I Florida Native Plant Member I Tree ~OICIelrv Member I Fairchild Tropical Garden Member I Kampong I

I Key Tropical Botanical uvuv I Museum ofModem Art

Member I National Resource Council Member I Club

Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities ASLA Design

2006 Fellow ASLA 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of Florida

Practicing landscape architecture from its studio on the banks Miami River downtown Florida Raymond Jungles is as a dynamic award-winning landscape architecture firm in I firm has a well-managed and highly productive team that is Vu on providing the highest quality of professional to on a project types including residential botanical hotels and office and condominium projshyects public malls and 1J1aLagt

The team approach to and service

the principal and professional

that all receIve attention and creative design talent client from the collective process of

and critique staff

While creative in of their undertakings our staff views which based considerations (materials selection

the conceptualization and product is 111 -~-HIUU commitment to our clients

not only as an endeavor but also as an intellectual

timeframe the like) ects The production of pursues its contractual responsibilities and degree and with no compromise to the design

of our

by which we aim to better understand the relationship between the natural and built environment individual whether or small a Our passion in the of a set

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bull

bull bull bull bull bull bull bull

bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull public splces

_________________________________

bull us to further investigate and shape our approach and attitude the Df(neishybull

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research tool that u Architecture Viewing

ecology Architecture as an art form that is applied through

bullbull environmentalism architecture culture and art general

generate and tools necessary to build unique botanically rich landscapes through om commitment to sustainable design and development we strive to contribute to structme of the sustain us all

Raymond Jungles understands value and vital role ofdelivering an project on and the defined budget Carefully collaborative efforts with project consultants and the

of design and cost are some of the forces and principles of

bull ect that the undertakes has undertaken various complex and demanding projects over of its at multiple residential hospitality master plan and public work

proJ-

Raymond Inc each project within a context that is ecologically environmentally responsive particularly attentive to existing This approach has repeatedly demon-

Jungles recognizes LEED process as an important tool to design ecological landshyscapes Nielsen Douglas Thompson and are among LEED Accredited sionals with design The staff of Raymond Jungles commits to design with

to utilize certifiable and construction

bull scope Collaborative design with architectural bull redesign west entry creating a DeCItSln bull and constraints for public promenade bull __________________ ___________p_la_n_ting hard_sc_a_p_e_d_e_si_g_n__w_a_w_r_fu_a_t_m_e_s

bull FLAT I N PARK ESIGN D IGN TEAMbull BRie

bull

strated om understanding and commitment to plants to quantifiably use of

practice prevailing grading methods to exceSSlve run and the

Other Raymond Jungles Inc projects contain

1 Ward (Miami 2 Morada (Islamorada FL) 3 Miller Garden FL) 4 Naples Botanical Garden (Naples FL) 5 1111 Lincoln Road (Miami Beach FL)

Relevant Project List

Road Mall location Lincoln Road Miami Beach Fl size project cost NIA fee $160000

project 1100

specific environmental Our utilize native fertilizer irrigation while natural habitat

use of storm water order to reduce irrigation of Along design techniques Raymond

certification qualities

bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull

references

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

------------------------------------------------------------shybull BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM

bull

bull bull with his VLU-V skill contributes a healthy optimIsmbull UUla-gt Inc

recently completed LARE exam and is awaiting the results bullbull Corey R Seltenright Design Staff

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bull Bachelors ofLandscape Ball University 2007

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Bachelors ofArchitecture University of Miami 2009

Florida International University 2009 Member ASLA

bull Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from University of Florida 2009

bull Ailyn Mendoza Design Intern

bull of Miami 2010 bull

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record in connection with

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~ bull Priscilla A Thompson

City Clerk

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Bench parks confirm landscapes power to transport us Page 1 of 3

Posted on Sun May 09 2010 u s _ c - - 0 ~ 0 01 Vl

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confirm g ~ ~ ~ landscapes power to transport us B~ ~I ~ u

c c c ltt ~ 8 0 ~

By BETH DUNLOP tC1I -c ~I ~ w Vl

Special to The Miami Herald - tl ~

E 0 E c 0 u

Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

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City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

httpwwwmiamiheraldcoml20 1 010509v-print1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 10

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

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references

project location size project cost fee scope

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reference

project location size project cost fee scope

phase

reference

City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach FL 33139

Mr Robert Wennett President UIA Management LLC 1111 Lincoln Road Mall Suite 760 Miami Beach FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett urban-advisors com

New World Symphony Campus Expansion 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach FL 33139 2 acres $97000000 USD $138000 USD Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners Roof Garden design Campus alley perimeter promenades and sidewalks Construction Administration To be completed in 2011

Gehry Partners Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066 3104823000

Soho House 4385 Collins Avenue Miami Beach Fl 33140 1 acre $15000000 $250000 USD

Miami Beach Florida This project entailed the high end restoration and revitalization of a historic Miami Beach hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean Undertaken for the international Soho House Hotel and Spa chain Raymond Jungles Inc has been responsible for total site design for this beach front enclave Construction Administration To be completed in 2010

Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr Miami FL 33128 305-324-4700

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

------------------------------------------------------------shybull BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM

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bull bull with his VLU-V skill contributes a healthy optimIsmbull UUla-gt Inc

recently completed LARE exam and is awaiting the results bullbull Corey R Seltenright Design Staff

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Florida International University 2009 Member ASLA

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Bench parks confirm landscapes power to transport us Page 1 of 3

Posted on Sun May 09 2010 u s _ c - - 0 ~ 0 01 Vl

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confirm g ~ ~ ~ landscapes power to transport us B~ ~I ~ u

c c c ltt ~ 8 0 ~

By BETH DUNLOP tC1I -c ~I ~ w Vl

Special to The Miami Herald - tl ~

E 0 E c 0 u

Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

httpwwwmiamiheraldcom20 1 010509v-print 1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 I 0

Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

httpwwwmiamiheraldcoml20 1 010509v-print1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 10

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

httpwwwmiamiheraldcomJ20 1 00509v-printl1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 511 0201 0

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Submitted into the public record in connection withproject Sonesta Beach Resort item RE6 on 05-13-10location 350 Ocean Drive Key Biscayne FL 33149

Priscilla A Thompsonsize 103 acres City Clerk

project cost $25000000 USD (estimated) fee $450000 USD scope This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne

Hotel beachfront site setting on the eastern shore ofKey Biscayne at the Atlantic Ocean Proposed as a mixed-use development with hotel residential towers spas restaurants

retail space and a host of recreational amenities and sub-tropical gardens Raymond Jungles Inc has created a variety of water features event spaces and a unifying hardscapelandscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resorts sub-tropical setting This project comprises approximately one million square feet of space with approximately 200 hotel units and 40 apartments in five towers The project is currently on hold

phase Design Development 100 completed Project on Hold

reference Fortune International Realty Mr Joseph Herndon 1300 Brickell Avenue Miami FL 33131 3056795912

Key Design Staff

Raymond JungleslPrincipal Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Junshygles designs with space light habitat and architecture in mind Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Floridas Landscape Architecture Program In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of over 20 State and National ASLA design awards

Charles AtkinsDesign Staff Charles has accumulated over 10 years of professional landscape architectural experience including many years with direct responsibility for managing projects through all stages He received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 1999 from University of Florida Charles is also a member of the American Socishyety of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Douglas ThompsonlDesign Staff LEED AP Douglas Thompson received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2007 He is a LEED Accredited Professional recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the re-suits

Tyler Nielsen Design Staff LEED AP Tyler Nielsens love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences places theories and skills Tylers professional pursuit began at the University of Colorado where he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees Tyler is a LEED Accredited Professional with LEED design experience from projects that extend from Florida Colorado and even Africa Tylers affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Bench parks confirm landscapes power to transport us Page 1 of 3

Posted on Sun May 09 2010 u s _ c - - 0 ~ 0 01 Vl

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By BETH DUNLOP tC1I -c ~I ~ w Vl

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Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

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The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

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Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

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recently completed LARE exam and is awaiting the results bullbull Corey R Seltenright Design Staff

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bull Bachelors ofLandscape Ball University 2007

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Bachelors ofArchitecture University of Miami 2009

Florida International University 2009 Member ASLA

bull Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from University of Florida 2009

bull Ailyn Mendoza Design Intern

bull of Miami 2010 bull

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record in connection with

bull Bachelors ofLandscape Iht-1h from Florida International 2010 Olmsted Scholar 2009

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~ bull Priscilla A Thompson

City Clerk

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Bench parks confirm landscapes power to transport us Page 1 of 3

Posted on Sun May 09 2010 u s _ c - - 0 ~ 0 01 Vl

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confirm g ~ ~ ~ landscapes power to transport us B~ ~I ~ u

c c c ltt ~ 8 0 ~

By BETH DUNLOP tC1I -c ~I ~ w Vl

Special to The Miami Herald - tl ~

E 0 E c 0 u

Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

httpwwwmiamiheraldcom20 1 010509v-print 1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 I 0

Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

httpwwwmiamiheraldcoml20 1 010509v-print1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 10

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Bench parks confirm landscapes power to transport us Page 1 of 3

Posted on Sun May 09 2010 u s _ c - - 0 ~ 0 01 Vl

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confirm g ~ ~ ~ landscapes power to transport us B~ ~I ~ u

c c c ltt ~ 8 0 ~

By BETH DUNLOP tC1I -c ~I ~ w Vl

Special to The Miami Herald - tl ~

E 0 E c 0 u

Two public spaces conceived as gardens -middota ~ ~ one finished and the other just getting under way -- show us the enormous potential of landscape architecture to make our cities civilized and pleasurable The transformation starts when we respect the people who inhabit our cities rather than assume the worst about them

Landscape is our common ground the connection to the known world and the unknown Our public spaces bring us closer to the land to nature to buildings to each other but too often they are designed out of fear and caution out of the dimmest possible view of human nature (Will kids

skateboard down the paths Will the homeless sleep on benches Wouldnt people pick that fruit Wont kids splash in the fountain)

Too often the message is clear go away

But there is another better way one in which we give our cities back to their rightful owners (all of us) and these urban gardens will lead us there Welcome to earth they say and the design assures us that the experience is ours to have and to hold

WATER GARDEN

The first by the talented Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles is newly completed and ready to be enjoyed -- and it is a spectacular achievement stunningly beautiful (even to eyes of the passing motorist) and already lush and inviting Conceived as a water garden it occupies the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall between Alton Road and Lenox Avenue in front of the new not-quite-finished 1111 Lincoln Road parking complex by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

The other -- by Adriaan Geuze of the Dutch design firm West 8 -- is to be the front yard to Frank Gehrys New World Symphony Campus the building is scheduled to open on Jan 25 with the park to follow

1111 Lincoln Road Malls Urban Glade landscape design by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery backdrops

httpwwwmiamiheraldcom20 1 010509v-print 1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 I 0

Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

httpwwwmiamiheraldcoml20 1 010509v-print1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 10

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

httpwwwmiamiheraldcomJ20 1 00509v-printl1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 511 0201 0

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Conunon ground Two new Miami Beach parks confrrm landscapes power to transport us Page 2 of3

The Urban Glade that Jungles created is an exquisite even magical space Pause there for just a few minutes and you might see a bird take a quick cooling bath in one of the pools There are overarching specimen oaks draped with Spanish moss and low pools with water that moves ever so slowly Jungles used only native plants an array including swamp and water lilies grasses and rushes The pools are free form with infinity edges that let the water spill over and circulate Benches are boomerang-shaped in direct homage to the late legendary Morris Lapidus who turned Lincoln Road into a mall a halfshycentury ago

In another homage to Lapidus and another legend the late landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil the pavers are patterned black and white stripes made of small sparkly Pedra Portuguesa stones An enigmatic public art piece -- another ode to Lapidus and the era of the kidney-shaped pool-- by Dan Graham completes the composition

Water is always central to my gardens Jungles said And of course Morris Lapidus had fun with it but I also wanted to do a garden that really talked about whats best here

This block flanked on the south side by the large-scale home of the Lincoln Cinema building and the 1111 Lincoln Road complex posed challenges of scale and relationships shy- and tree placement to maximize sun in the winter and shade in the summer In all of his work Jungles says he concentrates on creating habitats bringing back what was once there in terms of indigenous wildlife

ONLY ON PAPER

The second garden exists only on paper but even at this preliminary point it likewise shows the promise and potential of landscape to transport us It has already had a bit of a saga The first conceptual plans were done by Gehry and Jungles but ultimately the contract went to widely regarded West 8 which has just two other major projects in North America -- the Toronto waterfront and New Yorks Governors Island

Geuze began with the basic thinking of his predecessors namely that the pattern of the park would reflect the dramatic interior forms of Gehrys building thus a design that offers a sense of mosaics

Geuze also started with hand sketches with intuition about the shape and scaling of things then created scale models and computer renderings He was driven he said by a big desire for a green park not a square and thus sought to create a subtly undulating topography punctuated by paved paths The paths will be shaded by bougainvillea wrapping its thorny way around metal pergolas and veitchia palms (among other trees) will provide shade The veitchias were chosen because they have thin trunks (the better to see the building beyond) and broad-enough frond canopies The plantings are intended to provide both shade and botanic pleasure Geuze said Its a park at a garden scale

That these public landscapes are not-quite-symmetrical bookends to Lincoln Road is fitting More than 5 million pedestrians traverse the mall in a given year (an amazing statistic really) and it seems fitting to show our best face to the most people and further set the bar high Already there are other potentially great landscaped spaces in the works

OTHERS IN WORKS

httpwwwmiamiheraldcoml20 1 010509v-print1618366common-ground-two-new-mia 51 020 10

Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

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Common ground Two new Miami Beach parks confinn landscapes power to transport us Page 3 of 3

The architect Laurinda Spear a partner in Arquitectonica has become a licensed landscape architect founding ArquitectonicaGeo which was selected to do the landscape for the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Museum of Science And just this past week the New York firm Field Operations which did the astounding landscape for that citys High Line reclamation project was selected to design the remaining plaza space in Museum Park And one should not forget Hargreaves Associates South Pointe Park done with Miami architect William Lane Nor should we fail to celebrate the great historic landscapes of William Lyman Phillips who gave us Greynolds Park Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden among many others

It is in the landscape that we can best express our shared visions -- our link to the past to our figurative and literal roots and our hopes and dreams for the future And yet the landscaped world is really much about the moment the here the now

Think of it a building can be made of materials that are far from indigenous and it will stand and endure no matter what it tells us about itself But a garden has to grow And to grow it must fit the climate the soil the terrain the geography it must be somehow sustainable It must be of its place and time And best of all once its there its ours

copy 2010 Miami Herald Media Company All Rights Reserved httpwwwmiamiheraldcom

Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE6 on 05middot13middot10

Priscilla A Thompson City Clerk

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