Archinect - News2024-05-17T10:59:35-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150323121/the-5-billion-moon-dubai-resort-could-soon-welcome-tourists-and-astronauts-alike
The $5 billion Moon Dubai resort could soon welcome tourists and astronauts alike Josh Niland2022-09-09T19:34:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a8/a8f6d8b2e73dd7ed2b6b94d53d732f1a.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A lunar addition to Dubai’s burgeoning <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150320930/encircling-the-burj-khalifa-high-up-in-the-sky-dubai-architects-propose-a-massive-gated-community-megastructure" target="_blank">Space Age aesthetic</a> may soon grace the city’s skyline thanks to a new tourist destination and astronaut training facility proposal by a Canadian venture called Moon World Resorts Inc.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.arabianbusiness.com/industries/travel-hospitality/dubais-new-5-billion-moon-proposed-as-uae-shoots-for-the-stars" target="_blank"><em>Arabian Business</em></a> has picked up details of the so-called Moon Dubai project, which is said to total 735 feet (224 meters) in height and will take around 48 months to complete once the final approval is given to designs first drawn up by the company’s co-founding architects Sandra G. Matthews and Michael R. Henderson.</p>
<p>Vaguely resembling the presence of Buckminster Fuller’s famed <a href="https://archinect.com/news/bustler/5951/montr-al-s-geodesic-dreams-celebrates-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-us-pavilion-at-expo-67" target="_blank">Expo 67 Pavilion</a> or one of the forthcoming (reviled) <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1292776/msg-sphere-london" target="_blank">MSG Spheres</a>, the structure is being marketed as a shot in the arm for Dubai’s hospitality and entertainment industries and will be surrounded by a “lunar colony” that is expected to receive up to 2.5 million visitors annually. The designers stated that this number could easily swell to around 10 million. According to their proposal, the ma...</p>
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Come for the view, stay for the artificial gravity: world's first space hotel to kick off construction by 2026 Alexander Walter2021-03-03T14:54:00-05:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f5/f59ae8968555f4715dc69fd952a1c38e.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>While the concept of space tourism may sound ludicrous, plans to launch people into space as a vacation vs. a vocation are well underway.
Orbital Assembly, a large space construction company, announced this year in a virtual event on its YouTube channel that it was on track to begin construction on the world’s (er, galaxy’s) first space hotel by 2026 [...].</p></em><br /><br /><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ce/cec05a91352a6c4081f85c8564829023.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ce/cec05a91352a6c4081f85c8564829023.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Scale comparison between the planned Voyager Space Station (200 meters/656 feet in overall diameter) and the existing International Space Station (73 meters/240 feet long and 109 meters/358 feet wide). Image courtesy of Orbital Assembly.</figcaption></figure>