Hobo Oslo Has Officially Opened—Meet Norway’s Most Anticipated Design Hotel

Norway's newest it place is here to make a statement. The long-anticipated Hobo Hotel Oslo opens amid growing buzz. With 181 rooms and no less than four different restaurant and bar concepts, it carries forward an idea inherent to the Hobo concept: that a hotel should be as alive and unpredictable as the city it is born from.

Hobo Hotel is no stranger to those who travel the Nordics. Hobo Stockholm—the eldest of the soon-to-be four siblings—has been a magnet for creatives and the culturally curious since its inception in 2017. A space that functions as a hangout, home, music venue, and popup space, its disruptive approach to hospitality proved to be a recipe for success. In 2024, the sister hotel Hobo Helsinki opened to great acclaim in the heart of the Finnish capital, quickly becoming an institution on the culture scene of Finland.

Behind the interiors of all Hobo Hotels is Berlin-based studio aisslinger. For Oslo, studio aisslinger has evolved its signature "Architecture of Optimism", a design philosophy rooted in the 1960s utopian communes of the U.S., where collective idealism shaped how people lived and worked together.