SODA transforms hostel into "design-conscious" pod hotel

London studio SODA has converted a backpacker hostel into Otherwander Soho, a high-density capsule hotel in central London with vibrantly-coloured social spaces. Otherwander combines 566 sleeping pods, or "nests", with shared social spaces, targeted at young travellers and those seeking budget-friendly city-centre accommodation. It occupies a former hostel housed across a pair of early 20th-centur