By Daphne Sashin
Photo by Dan Burke
The Pavilion building, a state-of-the-art inpatient facility which opened in October, has two segments equipped with LED lights: the roofline of the 15th floor and the roofline of the mechanical towers in the center of the building, known as the mechanical penthouse. Together, they are called the Pavilion’s halo.
The halo was designed to allow Penn Medicine to light up in themed colors along with other buildings in the city.
After spending most of February red for heart disease awareness, the halo turned blue, green, pink, and purple on International Rare Disease Day (Feb. 28); and blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This act of solidarity coincided with a fundraising campaign in which the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine matched employees’ contributions to raise more than $300,000 toward relief efforts for Ukrainians.
Read more about the halo in HUPdate