Lifehouse Design was one of ten leading sustainable architects and designers who participated in Speed Dating with Sanctuary at the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings on July 17, as part of the State of Design Festival's Design:Made:Trade event.  Sanctuary readers brought along plans and ideas to discuss with one or more of the architects/designers in a fun and interactive environment.  It was fast - 10 minute consultations - and noisy, but hugely successful: it received the gong from The Design Files for 'Most Popular' event at Design:Made:Trade.  See highlight

Sanctuary magazine featured an article on our Munro Court project's houses and communal gardens in Issue 10 this year (article by Fiona Negrin, photography by Rachel Pilgrim and Andrew Lecky).  Treehugger ran some excerpts and photos from it recently...  Have a look at: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/all-together-now-small-green-houses.php

For us Uruguay was an enigma, a small country of some 3 million people, an almost secretive republic, nestled between two giants – Argentina to the West and Brazil to the North. Besides its diminutive size, it boasts some quite amazing achievements - two football World Cups, a few football World Club champions, a couple of football Olympic  Gold medals, star football players.....it was about now that we decided to find out what else happens in Uruguay besides football.

So after a year and a half of Danilo filling our heads with anecdotes, comparisons and stories of his recent year in Uruguay (where?), the rest of the Lifehouse team was ready to ask him very politely to shut up. It must have been around this time that he started to take the hints and bored nods we had started to give him for he suddenly stopped talking about the beloved country of his birth.