Directly on Marienplatz, where the Neo-Gothic tower of the Neues Rathaus rises close enough to touch from the upper floors, Beyond by Geisel confronts one of the more demanding briefs in contemporary Munich hospitality: how to build something unmistakably new within a few metres of the city's most photographed facade. The Geisel family — Munich's most tenacious dynasty of hoteliers — answered by commissioning a building whose textured limestone cladding and clean horizontal fenestration hold their own against the Gothic stonework next door without competing with it. The result is a compact, considered property of around 72 rooms across seven floors, with interiors that press warmth and materiality into every surface. Inside, herringbone oak floors in a deep smoked tone anchor rooms furnished with sculptural upholstered seating in teal and cognac leather, chevron-patterned timber headboards backlit with amber warmth, and freestanding stone resin bathtubs positioned behind full-height glass partitions that frame the Rathaus directly. The colour palette — saffron yellow bedding, burnished brass side tables, dark wool lounge chairs — carries a Bavarian richness translated into a contemporary register rather than a folkloric one. The bar and kitchen space is lined floor to ceiling in dark-stained oak, a brass-topped island at its centre lit by globe pendants that cast the room in the amber glow of a serious private kitchen. Every seat in the upper lounge faces the square, the illuminated Gothic tracery visible at night as a kind of living theatre.

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