Shrine of Remembrance

This guide to the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne follows a precise beam of sunlight that architects Philip Hudson and James Wardrop built into the sanctuary to mark eleven o'clock on Remembrance Day, and the day in 1971 when daylight saving suddenly threw it off. It traces the shrine's frustrated fix with a theatre spotlight before an RMIT lecturer named Frank Johnston was called in with an unusual proposal. Stand beneath the small round opening above the sanctuary to see where the beam once fell.