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Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including two unusual transport options: float around at random on an inflatable cloud or jet off from the world’s first space tourism port. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Melbourne practice March Studio have trapped 4500 cardboard boxes behind netting in this store for Australian skincare brand Aesop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American toy designer Cas Holman advocates "open-ended play". She tells Dezeen that with children's lives becoming increasingly regimented, we need to let them play more freely. Read more View the full article

Here is another project from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, this time Israeli student Sharona Merlin has designed a flattened cup and saucer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Bell Phillips created this folded stainless steel staircase for a south London home. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Every room of this house in Japan by local architects Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates is contained in a separate block, connected by sliding doors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Teka Studio have converted an old tannery store house in Bergamo, Italy into a family home. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Large folding doors open this woodland house outside Stockholm onto a decked terrace that is shaded by a folding fabric canopy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Kindergarten in northern Italy by Austrian architects Feld72 is split into three separate house-shaped blocks connected by glazing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Dezeen Book of Ideas, a selection of over 100 great ideas by the world’s best creative brains, is now available for pre-order! (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Christian Vivanco has designed a sofa that resembles a picket fence surrounding a lawn. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some images by photographer Nelson Garrido of a restored architecture school building in Porto by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: Copenhagen designers Aleksej Iskos and Boris Berlin of Iskos-Berlin present this armchair made from a single sheet of felt at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with publisher Prestel to give away five copies of Salt Bridges: Changing Perceptions of Art, Architecture and Science, a detailed study of London architects Hawkins/Brown’s new scheme for the Oxford University campus. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2010: Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop presented bubbles of tape wrapped around metal frames at DMY Berlin last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have got together with Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos of London design and architecture studio Minimaforms to give away five copies of Enabling: the Work of Minimaforms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A group of disused grain silos near Christchurch in New Zealand are being fitted out as motel rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish firm Holgaard Arkitekter have refurbished an industrial building in Copenhagen harbour to create a housing complex, building a new glass facade framed in bronze aluminium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: over on Dezeen Screen we’ve just published another beautiful video by Gwenael Lewis for Canadian lighting company Bocci. This one features the 28 Series chandelier being installed at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi in Milan earlier this month, during the city’s international furniture fair. Watch the movie </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: here’s a selection of photos by architectural photographer Luke Hayes of JamScape, the audio installation created by Yves Behar of fuseproject and Jawbone in collaboration with Dezeen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These photographs by Julien Lanoo show a French driving-test centre by Samuel Delmas Architectes, which is camouflaged to look like a fence. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2016: Swedish designer Monica Förster has partnered with brand Erik Jørgensen to create a coffee table to be used with her Savannah seating range for the Danish furniture company. (more…) View the full article

Audio tracks and soundscapes submitted by Dezeen readers will play this week at JamScape, an experimental audio installation in Milan developed by Jawbone and Yves Béhar of fuseproject. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: British architect John Pawson exhibited a pavilion made of stone in Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last month London designers Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer of Raw Edges launched a collection of seats for Cappellini made of wooden veneer filled with expanding foam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article