"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"It was built for the man who for the sake of the future gets underneath, and not for the man who, startled, clutches his lifeless traditions closer to his would-be-conservative breast and shrieks, “It is ugly!” It may be ugly, certainly it must so appear to some; but it is noble. It may lack playful light and shade, but it has strength and dignity and power. It may not be “Architecture,” but it has integrity, and its high character is a prophecy. -- It is a bold buccaneer, swaggering somewhat doubtless, yet acknowledging a native god in a native land with an ideal seemingly lost to modern life—conscious of the fact that because beauty is in itself the highest and finest kind of morality so in its essence must it be true."  - Frank Lloyd Wright on the Larkin Administration Building.

Placing a theater on the square also needed to be handled differently than in the previous four parks.  For this task I considered several commercial buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the inspiration but settled on the Larkin Administration Building since it seemed to be the furthest removed from a theater in it's original intent.

Thus Fox Ridge now has The Larkin Theatre

The Larkin Theatre is smaller in scale than the original Larkin Administration building

Wright had large spheres on the column of the Larkin Building, beings that we do not have large spheres Fox Ridge has lions on the Larkin Theatre.  I am sure Mr. Wright is rolling over in his grave at that bit of dressing

Entrance to the theatre lobby is on the side rather than the front as I typically do with my Bijou theaters in other parks  This entrance will likely be off of a courtyard  as the square and Main Street progress.

The theatre is loaded up with lasers and fireworks

And again exterior light sources are obscured

View from the entrance balcony

Even though the Larkin Theater is not as large in scale as the original building it was inspired from its scale fits in well with the rest of the square. 

Progress is slow on Fox Ridge however it is coming along.

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