White Oak Music Hall

SCHAUM/SHIEH designed a dynamic cluster of music venues in Houston consisting of The White Oak Music Hall (WOMH), The Lawn, and Raven Tower Pavilion. The project is a seven-acre assemblage of new and adapted buildings, open air structures, landscaped areas, and paved and decked surfaces along the Little White Oak Bayou. The WOMH, the anchor of the project, houses two performance halls of 1200-person and 200-person capacities, with an outdoor lawn for 4,000. Pieced together from one large main site and a collection of smaller lots, the project is a unique example of urban infill that is feathered into the fabric of the neighborhood on both sides of the bayou floodway, and that engages with the light rail Quitman Street stop and the Houston Bayou Hike/Bike trail network. Owned and operated by a diverse and local group of live music fans and professionals, the venues offer a new state-of-the-art, transit oriented, cultural hub for the Near Northside neighborhood and for the city.

(With SCHAUM/SHIEH)