## London’s Coolest Capsule Hotel Proves Budget and Beautiful Aren’t Opposites London has a new answer to affordable city-centre stays — and it looks nothing like the hostels that came before it. SODA, the London-based architecture studio, has transformed a former backpacker hostel near Oxford Street into Otherwander Soho, a high-density capsule hotel built around 566 sleeping pods the brand calls “nests.” The result is something closer to a boutique hotel than a budget bed, a place that takes the Japanese capsule typology and reframes it for a generation that refuses to choose between cost…