“La Querencia is built around a single jewel: a 14-foot curved glass cylinder that projects four feet forward of the main facade, holding inside a sunken reading lounge — the querencia, the Spanish word for a place of safety and intimacy. At dusk, the cylinder glows from within like a desert lantern. To its left, a calm wall of warm-tan Texas Hill Country sandstone; to its right, a quiet panel of vertical mesquite-wood boards in dark walnut, hosting the carriage-style garage. A continuous one-foot band of warm bronze corten metal runs across the entire facade at the parapet line, unifying the composition. The flagship of the catalog — luxurious, jewel-like, calm.”