The 274-bedroom JW Marriott Manama, Bahrain is set to open in 2016 and will form part of a large US$2.5bn redevelopment project planned for Bahrain Bay - master planned by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

The hotel will be designed by architects Yousif Daoud Al Sayegh and Associates who designed the Six Senses Hideaway Zighy Bay, Oman

Exact details of facilities will be released at a later date but will include a luxury spa, health club, six restaurants, a rooftop lounge/bar and 17,119sq ft (1,600sq m) of meeting space. It will also boast 102 residences.

The JW Marriott Manama Bahrain Hotel will be the first JW Marriott property in Bahrain and the fifth JW Marriott hotel in the Middle East/Africa region.

Marriott International will also open a 78-unit Residence Inn by Marriott in 2012 and the 318-room Renaissance Bahrain Amwaj Island Hotel in 2013.

Ed Fuller, president and managing director of International Lodging for Marriott International, said: "Our currently open hotels in Bahrain, the Marriott Executive Apartments and The Ritz-Carlton, have been tremendously successful, and we believe that this JW Marriott Manama is ideally located for a luxury hotel in Bahrain's commercial and financial centre."