Updated: Metrotopia Metaverse - created by Zaha Hadid & ArchAgenda

London-based global architecture brand Zaha Hadid Architects and Chicago-based architecture think tank ArchAgenda announce and launch METROTOPIA, a unique metaverse venture dedicated to become the go-to virtual communication hub for the global design community. The Metrotopia Metaverse launched on the 18th of May with the vernissage and opening of a Virtual Venice Architecture Biennale show entitled ‘Knowledge Transfer’ displaying current architectural designs from some of the worlds leading architecture firms, including OMA, Morphosis, Coop Himmelb(l)au, UnStudio, MAD, Sou Fujimoto, Archi-Union, LAVA, CAP, EcoLogic Studio and ZHA a.o. The exhibition responds to this year’s overarching theme ‘The Laboratory of the Future’ put forward by Lesley Lokko, for the 18th Biennale Architettura. The Metrotopia show is a segment of a Venice Biennale collateral event that includes CityX, a swarm of virtual pavilions hovering above Venice showing the research work of architecture teachers from around the world, as wel