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Visiting space will be “just like going on a cruise” says space hotel architect

August 29, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Space hotel: Von Braun Space Station by the Gateway Foundation

The first commercial space hotel will be more like a cruise ship than Stanley Kubrick’s sleek space station from 2001, says Tim Alatorre, senior design architect of the Von Braun Space Station. The Gateway Foundation is designing the world’s first space hotel – the Von Braun Space Station – with the aim of making visiting space accessible

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George Bradford-Smith proposes astronaut training facility on face of Mount Blanc

July 3, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Manipulating Mont Blanc by George Bradford Smith

Bartlett graduate George Bradford-Smith has designed an astronaut training facility that clings to the face of Mont Blanc to imitate Mars’ extreme environmental conditions. Named Manipulating Mount Blanc, Bradford-Smith’s proposal imagines a future where humans will inhabit the red planet. It is intended to push astronauts “close to the limit of survival” to help them prepare

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SOM designs inflatable Moon Village to be first-ever lunar habitat

April 11, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Architect firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has unveiled a proposal for a permanent community on the moon, comprising inflating pods that balloon up to accommodate more inhabitants as the population grows. SOM teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to design Moon Village as “the first permanent human settlement on the

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Japanese space research centre will be suspended over moon-like crater

November 14, 2018 India Block 0

Clouds Architecture Office’s concept designs for the Avatar X space exploration campus in Japan, will have a robotics research centre suspended over an man-made crater. New York-based architecture firm Clouds Architecture Office designed the space technology research campus for Avatar X in old mining site in Oita prefecture, Kyushu, which already resembles a lunar landscape. The

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NASA announces winners of competition to design 3D-printed habitat for Mars

July 27, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

NASA has selected the five winning designs in the latest stage of its 3D-printed Habitat competition, which include a community of modular pods made from the Martian surface, and a vertical egg-like container. The On-Site Habitat Competition invited groups to design a sustainable shelter for a crew of four astronauts on a mission to Mars,

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Philippe Starck designs “foetal” interiors for Axiom’s commercial space station

June 14, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

French designer Philippe Starck has created the interiors for the habitation module of the “world’s first” commercial space station, which is due to open in 2020. Designed for the privately-owned space exploration company, Axiom Space, Starck’s habitation module will house paying individuals on expeditions to the space station. Axiom commissioned Starck to create the interiors of the crew

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Snøhetta to design Norwegian planetarium surrounded by a constellation of cabins

May 4, 2018 India Block 0

The golden cupola of Snøhetta’s planetarium will be orbited by seven “interstellar cabins” as part of Norway’s largest astronomical facility. Architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled designs for the Solobservatoriet, which is to be built on the site of a current observatory. The Tycho Brahe Instituttet, named after the 16th century Danish scientist who founded modern

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First space hotel could welcome visitors by 2022 – for an astronomical price

April 11, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Texas-based startup Orion Span has revealed plans for a luxury space hotel, which is expected to open in 2022. Plans for the £70 million space hotel named Aurora Station, which would orbit 200 miles above the earth, were unveiled earlier this week. The hotel is designed to hold four guests and two crew members, with 12-day trips being marketed at £6.7 million per person.

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UK spaceport moves closer to becoming reality

March 16, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The creation of a UK spaceport has edged closer to reality with the signing of the Space Industry Bill, which gives companies the ability to build a facility and launch satellites. The legislation, which received Royal Assent yesterday and became law, will allow UK businesses to conduct commercial space flights from a spaceport within the UK. “The Space

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Stefano Boeri imagines dome-covered Mars colony with “vertical forests”

October 22, 2017 India Block 0

Stefano Boeri has suggested that a “new Shanghai” made up of “vertical forests” could be built on Mars, should rising sea levels render Earth uninhabitable. The ambitious Mars-based eco city envisioned by the Italian architect would be made up of his studio’s signature plant-covered towers built under giant sealed “space-proof” domes. The hypothetical project was dreamed up in response to

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