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Flights of stairs in odd places (above), a flat-pack concert hall by Renzo Piano and a hotel in a former prison all feature in this week's Dezeen Mail, along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 141 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob calls for an end to the "tyranny of fun" in office design. (more...) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck and car company Peugeot have unveiled a prototype bicycle crossed with a scooter, designed for a free cycle scheme in Bordeaux, France. (more...) View the full article

Columns branch outwards like a grove of trees around the aisle of this wedding chapel in Gunma, Japan, by Tokyo architect Hironaka Ogawa (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An assortment of building typologies appear to be stacked on top of one another at this housing block in Middlesborough, England, by London architects FAT (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A nineteenth century prison in the Netherlands has been converted into a boutique hotel where guests sleep in the former cells. (more...) View the full article

Walls, shelves and desks are all made from piles of modular blocks at this office in Paris by French studio h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish architects DAHL&GHG designed this house in northern Madrid so that every room faces the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based design duo Raw Edges arranged hundreds of fabric ribbons around the edge of their display stand for Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat at this year's Stockholm Design Week. (more...) View the full article

Product news: this extendable bookcase by Dutch designer Reinier de Jong, which became one of our most popular stories ever after we published the prototype in 2008, has now gone into production. (more...) View the full article

Residents taking a bath or using the toilet are on show to swimmers in the pool at this brick and concrete house in Chiang Mai, Thailand (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Danish ceramic artist Malene Hartmann Rasmussen has photographed dozens of glazed ceramic worms to create a wallpaper for the home of 19th century Arts & Crafts designer William Morris. (more...) View the full article

This house in Belgium by Ghent studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten is broken down into cubic volumes that are staggered to let more light into each room (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a house in New Jersey designed in 1954 by the influential American architect Frank Lloyd Wright could be sold and moved as far away as Italy in order to save it from flood damage. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm studio Humans Since 1982 has combined 288 analogue clocks to create an installation of shifting monochrome patterns, lettering and numbers (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Google has teamed up with global architecture firm NBBJ to design a new 100,000-square-metre campus for San Francisco Bay, California. (more...) View the full article

Canadian interior designers Mason Studio filled a warehouse with luminous clouds as a calming space amid the hustle and bustle of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival last month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five books about cities around the Pearl River Delta in China, the largest industrial region in the world. (more...) View the full article

This week Dezeen is in Cape Town so here's a steampunk-inspired coffee shop in the city by South African designer Haldane Martin. (more...) View the full article

Mysterious flights of stairs float in mid-air or form elevated outdoor walkways in this series of installations by artists Lang/Baumann (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Renzo Piano has replaced the auditorium destroyed during the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, with a flat-pack building comprising three wooden cubes. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Japanese design studio Nendo has come up with a modular office furniture system with tall backrests for extra privacy (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Daniel Libeskind has spoken out against architects who create "morally questionable" buildings in undemocratic countries, calling on them to consider whether their projects are "legitimate". (more...) View the full article

Today we're launching the Dezeen and MINI World Tour, which will see us visiting eight cities to discover the most exciting new talents, the hottest trends and the most important themes in architecture and design in 2013. Find out more and watch the movie » View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Stanton Williams (whose Stirling Prize-winning Sainsbury Laboratory is shown above), Giles Miller Studio and Dezeen, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Skandium and more... (more...) View the full article