We, darch, are organising a quiet drink this friday to celebrate the life and work of Harry Seidler who passed away late last week. If you around then make your way down to Ryan’s Bar at Australia Square after work to take back arguably Seidler’s best building in Sydney from the bankers who usually haunt it.

If you are not familiar with the work of Seidler, he was the cantankerous, stubborn modernist that filled Sydney with its best towers, its best houses and its best bow ties.

As these tributes attest, he will be sorely missed: The Australian + The Sydney Morning Herald + The Age + Things Magazine + Archinect