IKEA is set to open a pop-up shop in the metaverse in collaboration with game platform Roblox, allowing players to add classic IKEA designs to their virtual homes. More about IKEA launches pop-up furniture shop in Roblox game
Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has designed the UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, which will display 600 artefacts that have been stolen or disappeared. More about Diébédo Francis Kéré designs UNESCO museum for stolen artefacts
Rumours of the metaverse's demise are greatly exaggerated – particularly when it comes to designing virtual buildings, writes Sarah Housley. More about "The idea of designing for virtual worlds is just getting started"
Promotion: architect Konrad Wójcik has talked about how he used real-time 3D-rendering software Lumion to create a virtual, desert-proof glass bunker house informed by the Dune films' sets. More about Lumion 3D-rendering software allows architects to design with "unparalleled ease"
Swedish designer Christoffer Jansson created a virtual apartment and pretended to live in it for months as part of a social experiment he exhibited at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair. More about Christoffer Jansson passes off virtual apartment as Instagram home renovation project
Architecture and design studio Space Popular has unveiled Search History, an exhibition at the MAXXI museum in Rome that applies the writings of Italian architect Aldo Rossi to virtual worlds. More about Space Popular reinterprets Aldo Rossi's architectural theories for the metaverse
IKEA's research lab Space10 has developed a concept for connecting a physical furniture piece to an ever-evolving NFT tree, which "grows" through acts of care to incentivise people to keep, repair and recycle their belongings. More about Space10 proposes linking NFTs to furniture to encourage better care
Architecture studios Grimshaw, HWKN, WHY and Farshid Moussavi have partnered with metaverse company Pax.world to create a series of virtual hubs informed by the ancient Silk Road. More about Grimshaw and Farshid Moussavi create metaverse social spaces
Tequila brand Jose Cuervo has opened a metaverse distillery designed by Mexico-based Rojkind Arquitectos and British designers Bompas & Parr, where attractions include a barrel maze and a pool party. More about Rojkind Arquitectos and Bompas & Parr design Jose Cuervo distillery in the metaverse
Designers have created a number of virtual buildings for metaverse community The Row, including a giant statue turned into a house designed by Daniel Arsham and a home that changes colour during the day. More about Metaverse real estate community The Row launches with six architectural designs by artists
UK studio PLP Architecture has created 5,000 NFTs based on the concept for a virtual skyscraper in the metaverse. More about PLP Architecture launches collection of 5,000 skyscraper NFTs
With a focus entirely on commercialism, NFTs are the most boring form of digital art being developed, writes Phineas Harper. More about "There are far more radical forms of digital art than the cultural dead end of NFTs"
Digital fashion brand Auroboros has collaborated with architecture studio Voxel Architects to create a rocket-shaped virtual building to host the closing event of Metaverse Fashion Week tonight. More about Voxel Architects designs "mystic" virtual arena to host Metaverse Fashion Week closing event
Virtual reality platform Decentraland has launched Metaverse Fashion Week, a digital fashion week where brands including The Fabricant will showcase new clothing collections in the metaverse between 24 to 27 March. More about Decentraland to host "first-ever" metaverse fashion week
British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a "cyber-urban" city in the metaverse where people can buy plots of land with cryptocurrency and enter digital buildings as an avatar. More about Zaha Hadid Architects designs virtual Liberland Metaverse city
Danish architecture studio BIG has designed its first building in the metaverse, a virtual office for employees at media company Vice Media Group called Viceverse. More about BIG designs virtual office in the metaverse for Vice Media Group
The clean geometry of Dieter Rams' industrial designs informed Winter House, a virtual residence by digital artist Andrés Reisinger and architect Alba de la Fuente that exists in a pink-hued winter world. More about Andrés Reisinger and Alba de la Fuente design modernist house in frosty metaverse landscape
The second week of the Dezeen 15 festival saw Space Popular demonstrating a new type of portal for the metaverse while Henna Burney celebrated salt as a material for the future. More about Highlights from week two of Dezeen 15 include Space Popular predicting a "three-dimensional version of the internet"
Day six of the Dezeen 15 virtual festival saw architects Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular explain their idea for "a civic infrastructure for virtual teleportation" in a live video interview. More about Space Popular sets out its vision for digital portals made of virtual textiles
In their manifesto for the Dezeen 15 online festival, architects Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular propose portals made of virtual textiles to transform the experience of passing between digital worlds. More about Space Popular proposes a "civic infrastructure for virtual teleportation" to help people navigate the metaverse