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Philips’ Color Kinetics business has installed a unique lighting solution at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona as part of the hospital's $538 million expansion.

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The multi-million hospital expansion project is led by Dallas-based architectural firm HKS. The lighting design brief required the replication of a desert flower blooming at night.

The lighting design of the project was led by Dallas-based Scott Oldner Lighting Design using innovative interior and exterior LED lighting from Philips Color Kinetics. The design team created an escape for the hospital's patients and families and a distraction from the medical ailments surrounding them.

The lighting design team faced challenges in form of transforming the building into a beacon that could be seen from almost any direction. The foremost challenges included concerns regarding adherence to the local Dark Sky ordinance and the project's sustainability and budget requirements.

The lighting solution from Philips Color Kinetics was used to outline the building's distinctive architectural fins, while creating a visual canvas to display artistic animated colour displays. Long ribbons of LED fixtures were also featured down the front of the building, continuing into the lobby area. These fixtures visually connect the building's exterior and interior.

The visual surprise is continued inside with the initial idea of an indoor wall fountain replaced with floor to ceiling textured acrylic and LED fixtures for cost and practicality concerns. This resulted in the creation of a wavy water-like effect with shades of blue and aqua. The lighting solutions are also used along the corridor walls to provide interactive way-finding displays and to illuminate the back walls of the hospital's retail store display boxes.

To ease the installation for the hospital maintenance team, all interior and exterior LED lighting fixtures are controlled by a single lighting controller.

The Phoenix Children's Hospital is the 34,000th installation by Color Kinetics.