Landscape is often the last item negotiated on a luxury condominium project and the first item that shows the value of a good one. At 301 Ocean Drive, landscape is being led by Raymond Jungles — the Miami-based landscape architect whose practice has shaped many of South Florida's most recognizable tropical outdoor spaces. His involvement is not decorative. It is a structural part of how the building relates to its 3.8-acre Key Biscayne site.
Biography and Practice
Raymond Jungles founded his eponymous practice in Miami and has been designing tropical Modernist landscapes across the region for more than four decades. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a longtime protégé of the Brazilian landscape master Roberto Burle Marx, whose plan-oriented, painterly approach continues to inform Jungles's own work.
The Raymond Jungles practice works globally but is based in Miami, and the majority of its residential portfolio is in South Florida. That regional focus is meaningful for a project like 301 Ocean Drive, which needs a landscape architect who understands local species, salt exposure, and hurricane resilience at a working level, not as a theoretical concern.
Notable Landscape Projects
Jungles has designed landscape for a wide range of Miami residential, hospitality, and cultural projects. Public work includes the plaza and gardens at the Perez Art Museum Miami and the elevated landscape at 1111 Lincoln Road. Residential work spans private estates in Miami Beach, Coconut Grove, and Key Biscayne, and multiple oceanfront condominium buildings across the region.
The common thread across the portfolio is a recognizable design language — layered planting, integration of water and stone, and careful attention to the relationship between built form and landscape. A Raymond Jungles project is identifiable on sight to buyers who follow the space.
Philosophy: Integrating Landscape and Architecture
Jungles's practice starts from the position that landscape and architecture are the same design problem. Site plan, arrival sequence, planting, hardscape, water, and building are considered together. The result is a landscape that reads as inseparable from the architecture — not as a decorated exterior applied at the end of a project.
This philosophy pairs unusually well with Touzet Studio's approach at 301 Ocean Drive. Both practices treat the ground plane as the primary experience of the project. The building lifts off the site; the landscape flows through the site. Together they produce a coherent piece of coastal architecture.
What This Means for 301 Ocean Drive
At 301 Ocean Drive, Raymond Jungles is designing the arrival sequence, pool deck program, garden rooms, and beach edge. Buyers should expect a landscape that uses native and adapted tropical species suited to the salt-air environment, layered planting that produces mature-feeling gardens on day one, and hardscape that is quiet enough to let the ocean remain the primary view.
The practical consequence for owners is a project that feels finished and quiet from the moment of delivery. That is difficult to achieve on a new-construction oceanfront site and is one of the specific benefits of building around a landscape architect at Raymond Jungles's level.
Why This Matters to a Buyer
For most ultra-luxury buyers, landscape is the difference between a building that feels institutional and a building that feels like a home. On an island like Key Biscayne, where buyers frequently come from single-family estate backgrounds, that difference is decisive.
The involvement of Raymond Jungles is one of the concrete reasons 301 Ocean Drive is being marketed and priced as a boutique, residential-feeling collection rather than as a typical Miami oceanfront tower.
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Who is Raymond Jungles?
Raymond Jungles is a Miami-based landscape architect whose practice has shaped many of South Florida's most recognizable tropical landscapes, from residential gardens to major cultural and commercial projects. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a longtime protégé of Roberto Burle Marx.
What is Raymond Jungles known for?
Jungles is known for a distinctively tropical Modernist language — layered plantings, native and adapted species, sculptural water and stone elements, and site plans that integrate architecture with landscape rather than treating them as separate disciplines.
What other projects has Raymond Jungles designed?
Jungles has designed landscapes for a wide range of Miami residential, hospitality, and cultural projects, including work at 1111 Lincoln Road, The Perez Art Museum Miami plaza, private residences across Miami Beach and Coconut Grove, and multiple oceanfront condominium buildings.
What does his involvement mean for 301 Ocean Drive?
At 301 Ocean Drive, Raymond Jungles is designing the ground plane, arrival sequence, pool decks, and beach edge in close coordination with Touzet Studio. Buyers should expect a landscape that reads as an integrated whole rather than as a garnish applied to a tower.