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WET, also known as WET Design, is a
water feature In landscape architecture and garden design, a water feature is one or more items from a range of fountains, jeux d'eau, pools, ponds, rills, artificial waterfalls, and streams. Before the 18th century they were usually powered by gravity ...
design firm based in
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. Founded in 1983 by former
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Mark Fuller, Melanie Simon, and Alan Robinson, the company has designed over two hundred fountains and water features using water, fire, ice, fog, and lights. It is known for creating
The Dubai Fountain The Dubai Fountain contains a choreographed fountain system located on the artificial Burj Khalifa Lake, at the center of the Downtown Dubai development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was designed by WET (Water Entertainment Technologies), W ...
, the world's largest performing fountain, along with the 8-acre (3.2 ha)
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. It has designed features in over 20 countries around the world, in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. WET holds more than 60 patents pertaining to lighting, water control, and specialty fountain devices that use air compression technology. The company is a frequently cited source for the role water plays in communities other than for purely utilitarian needs. WET was also featured in and co-produced the 2013
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reality television show '' The Big Brain Theory, Pure Genius'', where the winner of the show was given $50,000 and a one-year contract to work at WET.


History


1980s

WET was founded as WET Enterprises, Inc., which at the time stood for Water Entertainment Technologies, by Mark Fuller, Melanie Simon, and Alan Robinson in 1983. All three had worked together as Imagineers at Disney. During his time at Disney, Fuller created the “Leapfrog” fountain at Epcot, using laminar technology, which evolved from the subject of his senior college thesis project at the University of Utah. The company was renamed WET Design in 1985, the same year that Claire Kahn joined the company as Director of Design. Later, its name became simply WET from WET Design. The company also named WET Labs. The company's first major project came in 1986 when it collaborated with the firm of
I. M. Pei Ieoh Ming Pei
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as well as landscape architects
Dan Kiley Daniel Urban Kiley (2 September 1912 – 21 February 2004) was an American landscape architect, who worked in the style of modern architecture. Kiley designed over one-thousand landscape projects including Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis ...
and Peter Ker Walker to create the waterscape of Fountain Place (at Allied Bank Tower) in
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. The project showed the first use of WET's patented open-jointed paving in a fountain where shots of water appear from the openings in the plaza's surface. WET's first municipal project came in 1987 when it was commissioned to create a work for the Los Angeles Music Center. The work was designed around ''Peace On Earth'', a controversial sculpture designed by
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. In 1988, WET introduced the first of its patented shooters, the MiniShooter, which utilizes compressed air to propel water in the air, for the Seto Ohashi Exhibition in Sakaide City, Japan. That same year, the company designed the
Splatter Up Splatter Up is a T-ball toy released in 1988, designed by WET Design,Worlds of Wonder.


1990s

WET teamed with architects
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in 1991 for a water feature at the
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in Los Angeles, California. WET designed a series of transparent in-floor elements with water displays on the underside, on which the public can walk and which stretched from the elevator lobby to the building's exterior garden. From 1994 through 1997, WET completed many projects throughout Asia including the Singapore features of
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, by Pritzker Architectural Prize Laureate Philip Johnson, the Ritz Carlton Hotel, and Bugis Junction. Additional projects included the
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in
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, Pattaya Festival Center in the city of Pattaya, and again with the firm of
I.M. Pei Ieoh Ming Pei
– website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
( ; ; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was ...
, the Anggana Danamon Bank in Jakarta. One of the company's most notable designs came in 1998 when it collaborated with
Steve Wynn Stephen Alan Wynn ( Weinberg; born January 27, 1942) is an American real estate developer and art collector. He was known for his involvement in the luxury casino and hotel industry, prior to being forced to step down in 2018. Early in his care ...
to design the
Fountains of Bellagio Fountains of Bellagio ( ) is a free attraction at the Bellagio resort, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It consists of a musical fountain show performed in an man-made lake in front of the resort. The show uses 1,214 water no ...
, for the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Fountains are set in an 8-acre (3.2 ha) manmade lake. Under Bellagio, WET collaborated with an array of composers and choreographers to create the Fountain's shows, including renowned composer Gerard Schurmann and the American choreographer, producer and director
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. Contrary to urban myth, the lake is not filled with treated
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from the hotel. The lake is serviced by a freshwater well that was drilled decades prior to irrigate a golf course that previously existed on the site. The Fountains actually use less water than irrigating the golf course did. In the event of an emergency, the Fountain's reservoir can be pumped into firefighting equipment to assist any neighboring casino without drawing from the city system. The Fountains of Bellagio introduced WET's motion controlled robotic water nozzles, built for WET by the robotics company Sarcos, for the first time in the industry. After this project, WET expanded its manufacturing capabilities to where it is now manufacturing virtually all of its invented devices in house. The company's feature incorporate a network of pipes with more than 1,200 individually programmed nozzles that make it possible to stage fountain displays coordinated with more than 4,500 lights. It is estimated that the Fountains cost $40 million to build. The nozzles are synchronized to music and shoot water up to 240 feet in the air. Charles Fishman's, Big Thirst features how people have emotional bonds to water and highlights WET's Fountains of Bellagio project. WET completed its first major project in Europe in 1998 with the fountains for the 1998 Lisboa Expo in Lisbon, Portugal. The same year WET was recognized by the American Institute of Architects by receiving the Allied Professions Honor Award and was also featured in the
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exhibit "Fountains: Splash and Spectacle." In 1999 it completed a project for the Barcelona World Trade Center which featured water banners that emerged from the plaza in the central atrium of the project.


2000s

WET became part of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in
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by winning the competition for the design of the Cauldron that lights the Olympic flame. The design included a 120-foot tower of reflective glass panels and incorporated water and fire. Marrying both with function, tiny jets sent water down the glass sides of the Cauldron, to keep the glass and metal cooled and clean and give the effect of melting ice. WET also released a book titled ''Creating the Cauldron'' that detailed the behind the scenes of the project and revealed how the company beat out others to win the competition, and how WET only had 18 months to create the Cauldron. Upon the completion of the games, the Cauldron was installed at Rice Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah, in the
Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park The Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron Plaza is located outside the southwestern corner of Rice–Eccles Stadium on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. During the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, the stadium was kn ...
. In 2005, WET was contracted to design a water themed set for the
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, marking one of the company's first commissioned temporary features. The final design included 7,000 gallons of water that flowed under the stage, 2,000 feet of piping, and 8,000 feet of electrical wire. WET developed its third water feature in New York in 2004 as part of a renovation of the
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. (The first was the
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's garden fountain in 1987 and the second was
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's Prometheus Fountain in 1988.) In 2005, WET completed two more projects in New York: the fountains at
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and the
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feature. For Columbus Circle, the company worked in collaboration with the Olin Partnership. WET was commissioned in 2006 to redesign the
Revson Fountain Revson Fountain is a fountain installed in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The fountain was dedicated in 1964 and a redesign was c ...
, originally opened in 1964 at the
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, in New York. The company was engaged to redesign the fountain at the recommendation of the firm
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who were the lead designers on the overall renovation of the
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. WET moved from Universal City to Sun Valley, CA in 2006. In the same year, the company also collaborated with Steve Wynn a second time to create the Performance Lake at Wynn Macau. It continued with casino designs in 2008 when the company was commissioned to transform the volcano feature at the Mirage Hotel and Casino. WET was credited in 2009 with creating the world's largest performing fountain, with its creation of
The Dubai Fountain The Dubai Fountain contains a choreographed fountain system located on the artificial Burj Khalifa Lake, at the center of the Downtown Dubai development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was designed by WET (Water Entertainment Technologies), W ...
. The Fountain contains 6,600 underwater lights which can be seen from space more than 200 miles away. It was also in 2009 that the company was commissioned to create five fountains for the Las Vegas City Center. One fountain was the world's first choreographed ice feature with another being the world's widest programmable water wall.


2010s

WET completed additional Dubai projects beginning in 2010. These include five fountains at Burj Khalifa Tower Park in Dubai. That same year in Beijing, WET's feature at the Global Trade Center premiered the company's WaterBells; manipulating laminar flow fountains to create dome-shaped sheets of water. In 2012, WET enhanced the original 2006 design for the Wynn Macau, doubling the density of the design and debuting the world's brightest (280) watt) underwater LED lights that were engineered and manufactured by WET. WET completed the installation of three fountains at the City Creek Center shopping mall in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012. The fountains included dancing water, light, fire and music. The company was also commissioned to create the fountain show for the Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea for the expo's signature Big-O Water Feature. The same year, WET created one of the largest water shows in the world with the completion of
Aquanura Aquanura is the name of a fountain system in the Efteling theme park in the Netherlands. The premiere took place on 31 May 2012 on the park's 60th anniversary, and opened to the public the following day. The fountain was developed by WET Design, ...
in the Efteling theme park, in the Netherlands. WET created ''Luminous'', a water wall spanning over 3 stories tall for the
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’s entrance, debuting with the hotel’s opening in April 2013. The WET-designed wall of water and light is composed of a thinly-woven metal screen over which water runs upon at different programmed rates to vary in appearance. In addition to choreographing the wall's surging water, WET used 5,000 color changing LEDs to allow the 19-meter mosaic of light, lines, and color to morph throughout the day. For the
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in
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,
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, WET created ''The Waters of the Olympic Park'', a colorful choreographed fountain located in the
Sochi Medals Plaza Centrally located within the Sochi Olympic Park sports venues, the Sochi Medals Plaza is located near the Fisht Olympic Stadium, the Black Sea coast and was the cauldron for the Olympic Flame. It is surrounded by a large water basin. Every night ...
. The feature was prominently featured during the Olympic Games’ opening and closing ceremonies. This second Olympic feature for WET (first being the
2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...
Cauldron in
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), houses a basin containing about 700,000 gallons of water, designed to reveal the five Olympic rings within performances. The feature is choreographed water displays set to a soundtrack of famous Russian composers including
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and Khachaturian. In late 2013, WET debuted ''Lycaste'', an interactive children's fountain named and designed after the
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for Dasada, a resort in
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,
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. Set upon a deck of teak wood, the feature is experienced via WET's LED lighting at day in bright white and night in vibrantly programmed color combinations.


Design features

WET has pioneered many of the technologies that have since become common in fountains built around the world, by others as well as WET. These technologies include
laminar flow Laminar flow () is the property of fluid particles in fluid dynamics to follow smooth paths in layers, with each layer moving smoothly past the adjacent layers with little or no mixing. At low velocities, the fluid tends to flow without lateral m ...
fountains, fountains that arise from the open-jointed paving instead of from pools, fountains powered by compressed air instead of pumps, and fountains employing sophisticated underwater
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. Hallmarks of WET fountains are that the water itself is the element of interest (no
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covered by water); there are few if any boundaries between the
fountain A fountain, from the Latin "fons" ( genitive "fontis"), meaning source or spring, is a decorative reservoir used for discharging water. It is also a structure that jets water into the air for a decorative or dramatic effect. Fountains were o ...
and viewers; the fountains display novel and surprising water forms not seen in traditional fountains; and many WET fountains take choreographic movement of the individual water elements to a level of precision and variable motion that approaches those of human performers. The company is also known for using multiple natural elements in its designs, like fog, fire, and ice; accompanying its sophisticated water forms, or alone.


Select list installations

WET has completed more than 250 installations in countries throughout the world. Installations range from features so small that the water seen barely fills a cup, to the world's largest performing fountain, The Dubai Fountain, and the entire range in between. A partial list of its installations include: * 2023, Atlantis The Royal (5 Installations),
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* 2022, Fountain of Joy at
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Square, Jio World Centre,
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* 2021,
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Water Feature, Dubai, UAE * 2019,
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, HSBC Rain Vortex, The tallest Indoor Waterfall, Singapore * 2017, The Fountain at
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, Entertainment City, Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines * 2016, Performance Lake at
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Cotai, Macau * 2012, Fountains at
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, Salt Lake City, Utah, 3 installations * 2012, Performance Lake at
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, China, enhancement of original fountain from 2006. * 2012, Aquanura Efteling, Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands. * 2012, Yeosu Expo 2012, Big-O Water Feature, South Korea * 2010,
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, Beijing, China * 2009, Las Vegas City Center, five installations. * 2009,
The Dubai Fountain The Dubai Fountain contains a choreographed fountain system located on the artificial Burj Khalifa Lake, at the center of the Downtown Dubai development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was designed by WET (Water Entertainment Technologies), W ...
, United Arab Emirates * 2008,
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, enhancement to the Mirage Volcano at The Mirage Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas * 2008, Fanfare at San Pedro Gateway, Port of Los Angeles, California, 2 installations * 2009, Revson Fountain at the
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, New York * 2008, Waters of Americana at Brand,
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* 2006, Performance Lake at Wynn Macau, China, original installation which was later enhanced in 2012 * 2005, Fountains at
Columbus Circle Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, ...
, New York * 2005, U.S. Tennis Association, Fountain at the South Plaza at the National Tennis Center, New York * 2002, Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, design of Olympic Cauldron * 2002, The Grove at Farmer's Market in Los Angeles, California * 1999, Burj Al Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 4 installations * 1999,
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, Chicago * 1998,
Fountains of Bellagio Fountains of Bellagio ( ) is a free attraction at the Bellagio resort, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It consists of a musical fountain show performed in an man-made lake in front of the resort. The show uses 1,214 water no ...
in Las Vegas, Nevada * 1995,
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at
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in Washington * 1994, Ritz-Carlton Millenia, Singapore * 1993, Epcot Center, Fountain of Nations Orlando, Florida * 1993, Universal Citywalk, Universal City, California, 3 installations * 1989,
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,
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, 2 installations


Awards

WET has received numerous awards and recognition for its work, including company founder Mark Fuller being named one of the ''100 Most Creative People In Business'' by
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. A partial list of its awards include: * 2013, Travelers’ Choice Award #1 US Attraction (In recognition of Fountains of Bellagio determined by
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reviews) * 2013, Entertainment Industries Council's SET Award for Documentary or Unscripted Non-fiction Category for The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius (In recognition of The Big Brain Theory inspiring youth in science, engineering and technology from the EIC's 2013 SET Awards) * 2012,
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Award for outstanding achievement (Aquanura, Efteling) * 2012, Award of Appreciation (From
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Yeosu Korea) * 2010, 50 Most Innovative Companies,
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