A Divine Intervention Is Staged for a 16th-Century Spanish Church

Two friends breathe new life into a crumbling church in northern Basque country.
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"I need you. I bought a f*cking church!" With this blunt text message to his friend, architect Carlos Garmendia of Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos, Tas Careaga kicked off a three-year design adventure. 

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