This week on Dezeen, a video fly-through showed architecture studio Abiboo's proposal for Nüwa city, which was designed to be the first permanent city on Mars.
The city, which was envisioned to house up to 250,000 people, would be embedded into a cliff face.
It was designed by Abiboo for non-profit organisation the Mars Society to be a self sufficient and sustainable settlement.
"It is a sustainable and self-sufficient city with a strong identity and sense of belonging," Abiboo founder Alfredo Munoz told Dezeen in an exclusive interview. "Nüwa is conceived to be the future capital of Mars."
NFTs will usher in a "creative and artistic renaissance" say designers
Interest in NFTs continued this week with digital designers telling Dezeen the technology will lead to a wave of artistic innovation as creatives can sell work directly to customers. "We're right at the beginning of the frontier," 3D artist Alexis Christodoulou told Dezeen. "This is an opportunity to create something beautiful because you're in charge again."
The metaverse will allow you to "extend your body into architecture" says Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular
We also held the first Dezeen Club event, which took place at a virtual rooftop bar created in spatial video-chat platform Gather.Town.
Guests listened to speakers including Space Popular and Amber Slooten from The Fabricant discuss the rise of the metaverse ? a term used to describe t...