Equinox Hotels has confirmed it will partner with NEOM in Saudi Arabia for the prodigious Treyam resort on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. Equinox Resort Treyam is one of regions’s twelve destinations, now collectively known as Magna, in the northwest pocket of Saudi Arabia.

One of many reasons the 212-room Equinox Hotel is unique is its adjacent climbing frame, namely architect Thomas Heatherwick’s 45m-tall honeycomb-shaped Vessel sculpture. More one-offs: enter the hotel’s main door to walk past an undulating aluminium and steel wall (remember distorting mirrors at fairgrounds?). At the 25th floor reception, fashionistas in white suits explained that the David Rockwell-designed hotel occupies floors 24-38 of the 92-floor Related-owned building, anchor of Hudson’s Yards redevelopment on the city’s west side.

Health and fitness brand Equinox will open its first hotel development in New York’s Hudson Yards, on Manhattan’s westside, in mid-July 2019.