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Equinox Hotel · Hudson Yards

The first time a wellness brand became a building.

The question

Could a brand built on effort be trusted with rest?

01 · Arrival

The register, set early

The entry states the idea before a word is spoken.

The stack

A club, offices, a coworking floor, and a hotel, in one tower. Each tenant a reason for the next.

02 · The tower

A vertical ecosystem

The largest Equinox club ever built at the base, six floors of offices above, coworking with Industrious, and the hotel at the top. An ecosystem built to feed itself.

03 · The work floor

Where the day is spent

Coworking with Industrious, so a member could train, work, and sleep without leaving the building. The club fills the desks, the desks fill the beds.

04 · The spa

Recovery as infrastructure

Scaled like a core service, not an amenity on the top floor.

The product

What if the thing we sold was not a room, but a longer, deeper night of sleep?

05 · The room

Engineered for a longer REM cycle

A board of sleep scientists tuned every room for rest. Filtered air, total darkness, sound and temperature, all set to lengthen the sleep the body actually needs.

06 · The terrace

The city, brought in

Public space that reads as a continuation of how a member already lives.

What held it

Each tenant paid for the next. The club filled the offices, the offices filled the beds, the spa kept them coming back.

Place35 Hudson Yards, NY
RoleDesign leadership
Opened2019
TenantsHotel · Club · Offices · Industrious
ConnectedBrand · Behavior · Place · Business
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