Mr. Guberman said the most striking case involved a buyer who had signed a contract and paid about $20,000 in architecture and engineering fees before backing out of a $5.7 million apartment at the building on 84th Street.
From the balcony, the view ranged from the cathedral-like spire of the Dom, the highest mountain standing entirely in Switzerland, to the chocolate-box architecture of Saas-Fee's wooden chalets and hotels.
At Cambridge, only 10% of the architecture students are full-fee foreigners.
Companies using ARM's chip architecture pay a licence fee, and a small royalty on each chip or wafer.
Owing nothing to Intel's power-hungry x86 architecture, they incur no royalty fees to Intel.
The Trumps promote the project and advise on planning, architecture and marketing in exchange for fees and a cut of the gross sales.
Notorious cost-cutters (recently dropped one ratings agency to save fees) except when it comes to architecture: once hired Frank Gehry to design North Hollywood bank branch.
Yes, he charges small fees, but he is in love with architecture.
"Yet the purpose of this complex architecture was just the opposite," he said, "to avoid scrutiny and generate more fees".
In the 1860s, he again took up architecture and in early 1878 was selected to design the stations, at a fee of $200,000, along the elevated line.
