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Extreme Architecture
GALACTIC SUITE
(UK)
GALACTIC SUITE
‘Pages extracted from Extreme Architecture by Ruth Slavid, to be published by Laurence King Publishing, Autumn 2009. Text ©Ruth Slavid. Design ©Laurence King Publishing.’
If the idea of a trip with Virgin Galactic (page 186) feels a bit tame to you, one organized by Galactic Suite might be more to your taste. Describing itself as ‘one of the leading companies in the emerging space tourism industry’, and, founded in Barcelona in 2007, it ‘creates and develops cutting-edge concepts to improve the orbital tourism experience’.
Its founder is Xavier Claramunt, an architect with a practice called EQUIP Xavier Claramunt in Barcelona, which blends architecture, interior design and jewellery. His interest in outer space led him to set up the space tourism company Galactic Suite. Continue reading