"What started with a few student parties in the 1990s turned into a tidy line in hospitality for events and communications specialist Niels Jäger and architect Sascha Arnold. Now joined by another architect, Steffen Werner, the trio run James T Hunt Bar, Bob Beaman Music Club and Stereo Café. The Flushing Meadows, their first foray into accommodation, opened in 2014 on the top two floors of a former telecommunications building in Glockenbachviertel. “It’s more of a freestyle approach to a hotel,” says Arnold of the industrial yet relaxed setting. Each of the 11 rooms on the third floor was designed by a different creative – including restaurateur Charles Schumann, DJ Helmut Geier and Cathal McAteer, founder of Folk clothing – and features soaring 4-metre-high ceilings."