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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Mallory Kauderer-Brickell Flat Iron Park DesignSUBMITTED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD FOR ITEM k-6-6 ONS -.1 13 Po , BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN PROJECT PRECEDENCE BY RAYMOND JUNGLES INC. Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE -6 on 05-13-10 Priscilla A. Thompson City Clerk JUNGO A R C H I T E C T 1119F, jg,7P is ALMKF ` •• � � � � r ` �.`�M� +. i � < t..� �sf =`? yV y� '`a� `-� t ��- t ly , _ - f -s _�-:-r• .� �, ) - _ __'��.~ - r�rt� lye �_���� 1 t ��= "`Z -j1 '�T �"'; -' _ ��- - r -. -_ ��s � �'� 1-��\}4 ( �it Sl ���j•(_ „S- �. �1 �, ft.r�� �w jt i� j '• t". i � �1����. _1� � • -_'. �< • `\ t � ,•� � _ AFM, • jr h�Nti� Ott Allb -'!A f, tk Priscilla A. I 11ompson City Clerk 41 0 BRICKELL FLAT IRON - PROJECT PRECEDENCE NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN 40 'l� �' /. �/. 1. `�R> \ � � -.�• 'AW �F �r volt !� + � ��� ►�j1� •• � t/ � t y ' 7 ♦r• 1 ' tI I r4 t + JC P.-4' A� •-e'-1 - �I 1 ' __ ' 4•� . , . 'r•Y 511 ` I * eµi qr AQ" pow 30d . 1.! . _ - :'G'_. iii ��.► ��/C� '• r. - ,}� +nt - .ma y`ro 0 Um.y y��. _ . t Y 1� p 1 •� , r �1 • 1 1Vm public n with -10 ,ZMr.a npson f, r 4 Principal: Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE.6 on 05-13-10 Raymond Jungles, FASLA Priscilla A. Thompson 242 SW 5th Street City Clerk Miami, Florida 33130 Phone 305.858.6777 IST VrAltt Education: 1981 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Honors / University of Florida 1978 Associate in Arts, Honors / Miami -Dade Community College Registration: State of Florida / Landscape Architect / #856 / October 1982 Professional Activities: 2006-2009 Fellow / National ASLA Council of Fellows 1983-2009 Member / ASLA 1981-1983 Associate / ASLA 1978-1981 Student / ASLA 2008 Juror / Dawntown Miami Waterworks Competition 2007 Member / ASLA National Awards Jury 2006 Presenter/ ASLA National Meeting 2005 Presenter / ASLA National Meeting 2005 Tour Guide / ASLA National Meeting 2005 Practitioner's Panel — "Getting the Details Right" / ASLA National Meeting Aft Recent Honors, Awards and Recognition: L V 2009 Award of Excellence/ Florida Nurserymen Growers Landscape Assoc iation/Jupiter, FL. 0 Environmental Improvement Grand Award/ The Professional Landcare Network/River Hammock House. 0 2008 Frederic B. Stresau Award / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Stone Reef House Garden 0 Award of Excellence / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Stone Reef House Garden 0 Award of Honor / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Ella Fontanals Cisneros Garden Award of Merit / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Anagrethel & Samuel Lewis Garden 0 Florida International Magazine 2008 Power Players 0 Stars of Design Award / DCOTA — Design Center of the Americas / Landscape Design 2007 0 Award of Honor / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Comfeld Garden 0 2006 Fellow / National ASLA Council of Fellows 2005 Honor Award / National ASLA Professional Awards Program / Island Modem 0 Frederic B. Stresau Award of Excellence / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Island Modem 0 Award of Excellence / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Island Modem 0 Award of Honor / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Casa Morada 0 2004 Award of Excellence / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Hyatt Windward Point Resort Award of Merit / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Bergeron Garden 2003 "Landscape Architect of the Year" / Miami Chapter, American Institute of Architects 2002 Award of Merit / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Spanish Tropical Garden Award of Merit / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Montifiore Garden 0 0 BRiCKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM 0 2001 Frederic B. Stresau Award of Excellence / Florida Chapter, ASLA I Dunn Garden Award of Excellence / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Dunn Garden Award of Excellence / Florida Chapter, ASLA / Swerdlow Garden Award of Recognition / Florida Chapter, ASLA I Lectures2000 University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Membership in Allied Organizations: Member/Miami Axt Museum Member/New World Symphony Member / Florida Native Plant Society Member / Flowering Tree Society0 Z _e Member I Fairchild Tropical Garden CL c 0 E Q (D Member Kampong / Fellow -C 41 0 Member Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden C r E r 0- Member Museum of Modem Art 0 M Member I National Resource Defense Council 41 -r U; U W Member Sierra Club E L_ 0 E -r- 0 Major Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities: 2007 ASLA National Design Awards Juror 2006 Fellow ASLA 2006 Most Distinguished Alumnus, University of Florida Firm Profile: Practicing landscape architecture from its studio on the banks of the Miami River in downtown Miami, Florida, Raymond Jungles, Inc. is recognized as a dynamic, creative, award-winning landscape architecture firm. Founded in 1982, the firm has developed a well-managed and highly productive design team that is focused on providing the highest quality of professional services to its clients on a variety of project types, including private residential gardens, botanical gardens, hotels and resorts, office and condominium proj- ects, public spaces, malls and plazas. The to approach to project management and service insures that all projects receive the highest level of attention and creative design talent. Each client benefits from the collective process of daily discussion, review and design critique between the principal and the professional design staff. While highly creative in each of their undertakings, our design staff views design not only as an aesthetic endeavor but also as an intellectual process in which reality based considerations (materials selection, budget, timeframe, and the like) play an important role in the conceptualization and realization of our proj- ects. The timely production of work product is viewed as an essential conuriitment to our clients. The firm pursues its contractual responsibilities and obligations with the highest degree of efficiency and with no compromise to the design. Approach: Our passion lies in the exploration of a set of ideas by which we aim to better understand the relationship between the natural and built environment. Each individual project, whether large or small, becomes a BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM research tool that allows us to further investigate and shape our approach and attitude towards the profes- sion of Landscape Architecture. Viewing Landscape Architecture as an art form that is applied through the principles of ecology, botany, environmentalism, architecture, culture, and art in general inspires us to generate the creative energy and tools necessary to build unique botanically rich landscapes. Evidenced through our commitment to sustainable design and development, we strive to contribute to the structure of the natural systems that sustain us all. - MM i - . WPM and within the defined budget. Carefully devised collaborative efforts with project consultants and the inte- gration of design and cost estimating are some of the driving forces and governing principles of every proj- ect that the Firm undertakes. RJI has undertaken various complex and demanding projects over the course of its practice at multiple scales including residential, hospitality, master plan, and public work. sllos= Raymond Jungles Inc. designs each project within a context that is ecologically sensitive, environmentally responsive and particularly attentive to existing ecosystems. This holistic approach has repeatedly demon- strated our understanding and commitment to site specific environmental design. Our designs utilize native plants to quantifiably reduce the use of commercial fertilizer and irrigation while increasing natural habitat. We practice prevailing grading methods to make use of storm water in order to reduce irrigation, prevent excessive run off, and enhance the nourishment of plants. Along with these design techniques, Raymond Jungles Inc. recognizes the LEED design process as an important tool to design ecological sensitive land- scapes, Tyler Nielsen, Douglas Thompson and Elizabeth Desmond are among the LEED Accredited Profes- sionals with LEED design experience. The entire staff of Raymond Jungles commits itself to design with and to utilize LEED certifiable materials and construction methods. Other Raymond Jungles, Inc. projects that contain LEED certification qualities: 1. Ward Garden (Miami, FL) 2. Casa Morada (Islamorada, FL) 3. Miller Garden (Stuart, FL) 4. Naples Botanical Garden (Naples, FL) 5. 1111 Lincoln Road (Miami Beach, FL) :t 0 -he 0 CL E Relevant Project List: o o '7 E_ as= 0 0 M project: 1100 Lincoln Road Mall E location: Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FI. E size: 43,560 square feet project cost: N/A fee: $160,000 USD scope: Collaborative design effort with Swiss architectural firm Herzog & De Meuron. Complete redesign of west entry creating a pedestrian plaza including; evaluation of site features and constraints for public promenade and public spaces, grading and drain age, planting design, hardscape design, water features, site furniture, and site lighting. BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM references: City of Miami Beach Tom Mooney 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139 Mr. Robert Wennett / President UTA Management, LLC 11 I 1 Lincoln Road Mall / Suite 760 Miami Beach, FL 33139 Phone 305-538-9320 Fax 305-531-4409 rwennett @ urban-advisors.com project: New World Symphony Campus Expansion location: 541 Lincoln Road Miami Beach, FL 33139 size: 2 acres project cost: $97,000,000 USD fee: $138,000 USD scope: Collaborative design effort with architectural firm Gehry Partners. Roof Garden design, Campus alley, perimeter promenades and sidewalks. phase: Construction Administration / To be completed in 2011 reference: Gehry Partners reference: Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr. Miami, FL 33128 305-324-4700 • • • BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM • Craig Webb 12541 Beatrice Street Los Angeles, CA 90066 310.482.3000 B 3 0 C. C 0 `i E V L Z t project: *' Soho House ° y c Ln c I- V d location: 4385 Collins Avenue. Miami Beach, Fl. 33140 ° o size: 1 acre LU project cost: $15,000,000 E c .L a fee: $250,000 USD cu scope: 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. phase: Construction Administration / To be completed in 2010 reference: Claro Development Solutions Ray Lastra 19 NW South River Dr. Miami, FL 33128 305-324-4700 • • • BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM • Submitted into the public project: Sonesta Beach Resort record in connection with location: 350 Ocean Drive. Key Biscayne, FL 33149 item RE.6 on 05-13-10 size: 10.3 acres Priscilla A. Thompson project cost: $25,000,000 USD (estimated) City Clerk fee: $450,000 USD scope: This retrofit project includes the proposed redevelopment of the entire Sonesta Key Biscayne Hotel beachfront site, setting on the eastern shore of Key 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 hardscape/landscape palette that celebrates native plant species within the resort's 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 305.679.5912 Key Design Staff: • Raymond Jungles/Principal • Admired and awarded for his gardens and landscapes, renowned Miami landscape architect Raymond Jun- gles designs with space, light, habitat and architecture in mind. Raymond began designing gardens in 1981 upon graduation from University of Florida's 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 Atkins/Desi n 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 Soci- ety of Landscape Architects. (ASLA) Douglas Thompson/Design 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 LAKE exam and is awaiting the re- sults. Tyler Nielsen, Design Staff, LEED AP Tyler Nielsen's love for environmental design is evident through his excitement and continual quest for new experiences, places, theories, and skills. Tyler's 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. Tyler's affection for native plants and ecological sensitive design led him to become a member of Raymond • BRICKELL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM • 9 Jungles Inc. Along with his technical skill set, Tyler contributes a healthy dose of optimism and energy to the design studio. He recently completed his LARE exam and is awaiting the results. Corey R. Seltenright, Design St Bachelors of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University 2007 Peter Anselmo, Design Sta Bachelors of Architecture, Universij'� of Miami 201 1 SN M r1d %) WROIN • rdiftj I ten Kirsten Siegel, D!qsign Intern Masters of Landscane Architecture from Florida International Universitv 2009. Member ASLA Elizabeth Desmond, IIF Intern, LEED AP o an sc e.4,ry tevitir i I Jtiversi Ailyn Mendoza Design Intern Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from Florida International University 2010, FIU Olmsted Scholar 2009 Wesley Kean, Design Intern Bachelors of Architecture from Universily of Mi mi 2011 0 Submitted into the public 0 record in connection with item RE.6 on 05-13-10 0 Priscilla A. Thompson 0 City Clerk 0 0 RIC LL FLAT IRON PARK DESIGN DESIGN TEAM 0 Conunon ground: Two new Miarni Beecli parks confirm landscape's power to ti'ansport us... Paget of 3 9heRiAM143111le'raD WTI Posted on Sun, May, 09, 2010 u Common ground: Two new Miami Beach parks confirm landscape's power to transport us o By BETH DUNLOP Special to The Miami Herald C -O Two public spaces conceived as gardens --LA 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 ba _ connection to the known world and the unknown. Our public spaces bring us closer -` 1111 Lincoln Road Mall's Urban Glade' landscape design to the land, to nature, to buildings, to eachother, but too often the are designed out of by Raymond Jungles uses native plants and watery Y g backdrops, fear and caution, out of the dimmest possible view of human nature. (Will kids skateboard down the paths? Will the homeless sleep on benches? Wouldn't people pick that fruit? Won't 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 Gehry's New World Symphony Campus; the building is scheduled to open on Jan. 25, with the park to follow. http://ww�,v.miamlherald.co.m/2010/05/09/v-print/1618366/common-ground-two-new-mia... 5/10/2010 W 4A oc E a O Common ground: Two new Miami Beach parks confirm landscape's power to transport us... Page 2 of 3 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 half - century 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 what's 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 - - 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 York's 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 Gehry's 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. "It's 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 http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/09/v-print/1618366/common-ground-two-new-mia... 5/10/2010 u W I vui OC .i E a 0 Common ground: Two new Miami Beach parks confirm landscape's 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 city's 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 it's there, it's ours. © 2010 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved. http://www.miamiherald.com Submitted into the public record in connection with item RE.6 on 05-13-10 Priscilla A. Thompson City Clerk http://www.miamiheraid.com/2010/05/09/v-print/1618366/common-ground-two-new-mia... 5/10/2010