Stay overnight or take up residence for days, weeks, months, or even years at Lindley Lindenberg in Frankfurt, Germany.

With all the effort that hotels go through to make you feel right at home, it’s a shame that guests don’t quite get the chance to establish residence for long.
Lindley Lindenberg, the third Lindenberg establishment in Frankfurt am Main, continues the unique Lindenberg hotel practice of offering extended stays. Like its predecessors, Lindley Lindenberg’s impetus is to establish communities between long-term tenants and overnight guests. “We are neither a classic hotel nor a flat share community ? and yet, we’re both at the same time,” says Denise Omurca, who runs the hotel along with Christian Velthuizen and Nils Jansen.
German studio Franken Architekten designed the hotel’s shared living spaces to take up the full vertical height of the seven-story building so that from the street, the facade resembles a series of shop windows ? a ‘Wunderkiste’ (Pandora’s Box) as the architects call it, a “diorama of the Lindenberg world.”
“This shop window turns the guest community into a visible part of city life,” they added.

The shared spaces extend beyond community kitchens and common rooms to an indoor farm operated by permaculture group Braumannswiesen that produces home-cooked sauces, a parlor that holds records and books, and a wild garden with quince, apple, and pear ...