Pod hotels: small is beautiful

In 1977, Kisho Kurokawa designed the Capsule Inn Osaka, considered the first pod hotel.

Now, Pod hotels are taking over the world: joining easyHotel, in London and Basel, are Yotel, inside London airports; Cube, backpacker bunkhouses in Austria; Qbic, in Antwerp and Amsterdam; and the new Pod Hotel in Manhattan.