Key legal question
Whether the architect’s fee claim under the 20 Dec 1995 agreement was extinguished because the purchase of apartment H did not occur.
Extracted holding
The fee remained due; the agreement was not proven to be subject to a suspensive condition requiring completion of the apartment H purchase.
Extracted reasoning
The defendant did not prove an agreed suspensive condition. Since the defendant implemented and benefited from the project, it had to render the agreed counterperformance. The failure of the separate purchase arrangement did not show a forfeiture of the fee claim.