LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Jeronimo Arango
built 635 days ago
* The Arangos have had better luck than one of the originators of chain discounting that Jeronimo Arango studied in New York. In Manhattan last week, with $4,000,000 in bills piled up, Masters, Inc., filed a bankruptcy petition. Masters, which has seven stores in the New York area and four more in Pennsylvania and Florida, blamed its fall on too rapid expansion and poor store locations.
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Jerónimo Arango is a Mexican businessman, co-founder of the Aurrerá chain of supermarkets along with his 2 younger brothers, the famous Manuel and Placido, known for a long time as three of Mexico's wealthiest men. His fortune was estimated at 4.6 billion United States dollars in 2006 by Forbes magazine [1]. In the 2007 Billionaires issue Forbes new estimate is 4.3 Billion.
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In the Arango House, Lautner refined innovations in siting, material, and structure he had been honing in earlier projects. Its bold curves celebrate the sculptural qualities of concrete, which he liked to experiment with (he worked often with engineer T.Y. Lin, who pioneered prestressed concrete). Modernists like Richard Neutra integrated architecture and site by extending structures into the landscape; here, Lautner turned this tenet on its head, conceiving the house as an extension of the rugged topography and using form to frame exterior views (like his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright). Boulders thrust their way inside to become bedroom walls; the upper level is cantilevered out from the hill to block out lights from houses below and to give occupants the impression they’re walking on air between the sky and the bay.
Jerónimo Arango Arias (* ca. 1926) ist ein mexikanischer Unternehmer. Er ist der Gründer der größten Supermarktkette in Mexiko. Lange Zeit galt er als reichster Mann Mexikos, bevor er von Carlos Slim abgelöst wurde. Sein Vermögen wurde 2006 vom Forbes Magazine auf 4,6 Milliarden US-Dollar geschätzt [1].
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Durante 2006, solamente dos millonarios vieron disminuir sus fortunas, Jerónimo Arango y Lorenzo Zambrano, ambos mexicanos. Otros siete mantuvieron estables sus millones, mientras el resto, la gran mayoría, aumentaron significativamente sus acervos. En un análisis por sectores se encuentra que 16 millonarios de los 36 basan sus fortunas en recursos naturales (bebidas, minería, forestación, piscicultura, etc.) mientras que seis la sustentan en banca y finanzas, cinco en ventas al consumo, otros cinco en transportes y el resto en medios, telecomunicaciones y bienes raíces.
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The house was commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Jeronimo Arango as a weekend retreat for themselves and their four children. Specifically, they wanted great views of Acapulco Bay, choosing a hillside site for this purpose. Lautner responded with a two-story concrete structure of some 25,000 square feet. Five bedrooms and servant quarters are tucked into the lower level, while an enormous open terrace on the upper level, sheltered by a canopy, serves as the main living and dining space. And then there’s the moat—a 6-foot-wide swimmable channel ringing the entire terrace, with a continuous overflow at its perimeter. The moat not only underscores the dazzling sweep of ocean and open air, but ... ingeniously, keeps bugs and land critters from wandering into the house and eliminates handrails that would spoil the view.
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