Future Liberland - Zaha Hadid Designs Metaverse City

British architecture firm Zaha Hadid Architects is creating Liberland Meterverse, a virtual "cyber-urban" city in the metaverse where people are able to collaborate across geographies, buy plots of land with cryptocurrency and enter digital buildings as an avatar.
The project, which is led by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) principal Patrik Schumacher is a digital twin of the Free Republic of Liberland, a micronation claimed by Czech politician Vít Jedlicka that straddles disputed land between Croatia and Serbia.
"While the Liberland Metaverse is meant to spearhead the development of Liberland as a libertarian micro-nation it will also function as free standing virtual reality realm in its own right," Schumacher told Dezeen.
"The ambition is for it to become the go-to-site for networking and collaboration within the burgeoning web 3.0 industry, i.e. the metaverse for metaverse developers and the crypto ecosystem at large," he added.

[@JimPea]

You can really tell how slowly architecture projects of this scale move, they would've started on this right after Zuckerberg's Meta pitch, and by the time we're hearing about this, a lot of the hype has gone, as people realise a lot of it is empty hype.
Even if you are a believer in the Metaverse, they could've built anything they could imagine, why be constrained by real-world physical limitations? Either there's a complete lack of imagination here, or because it's a "digital twin", it's really just a glorified architectural render of a project that will probably never be built IRL.
I'm not saying this stuff from a place of hate, I studied design in a building designed by Zaha Hadid, I have a book of her work, and I've also spent a lot of the last 6 years working with virtual reality, it's just...this ain't it.

[@smartcraft1207]

Where would they get the money?

[@alexbrandonlee]

Great. LOVE

[@Monsoozi]

If its digital than why constrain the design to the ground? Why not make it in the sky? Or inside a multidimensional fractal? This lacks imagination.

[@RealOocca]

Damn bro they fr going to create cyptoland 💀

[@sultanyazid4799]

I want conserveland pls

[@macrospeed4804]

Zaha ❤🇮🇶

[@monikaszustak1986]

Liberland in 2100