"building a space" is a perfectly correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
For example, "When I started my business, I was focused on building a space where people could learn, share, and grow."
Indeed, Mr. Bigelow said that building a space hotel might entice rocket manufacturers to build the means of transporting guests to inhabit it.
"Spiritual jazz, for me, feels like building a space out of nothing and within that space [the musicians] build their house, their city, their entire universe through music," he says excitedly.
But building a space probe is both complicated and expensive.
"We're essentially building a space capsule inside a dumpster," Wilson said.
China's ambitions include putting an astronaut on the moon by 2036 and building a space station.
The company is building a space plane called Lynx that, like SpaceShipTwo, is meant to take tourists on suborbital flights.
The emphasis is on building a space-base through Tetris-like block-placement, while fending off waves of enemies.
During live performances, however, the human element takes over, with gesture-controlled electronics and a powerful rhythm section building a space-rock atmosphere.
The initiative dates from the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative, which poured billions of dollars into high-technology research in the 80's with the goal of building a space-based missile-defense system.
As such, building a space-based business has largely been within the realm of successful tech billionaires.
The Shankly isn't finished: they're still building a conference space and rooftop bar.
