Prime Location (2025 - In Process)

New e-commerce warehouse construction is rapidly reshaping the landscape. Built at the edges of communities, these vast distribution and fulfillment centers replace farmland and open fields with the infrastructure of instant consumption. Their repetitive, cookie-cutter exteriors form a new architectural vernacular—banal yet monumental—as they quietly redefine the terrain, becoming symbols of our shift from physical storefronts to digital commerce.

Prime Location comprises two bodies of work examining this transformation. The first is a series of warehouse façade typologies that highlight their ubiquity and repetitive designs. The second pairs my contemporary photographs of newly built warehouses with earlier Google Street View images made only a few months or years before. The project draws on photography’s long history of industrial architecture imagery and also its use of temporal juxtaposition to reveal how places evolve. Together, the works show how fertile fields and open spaces are swiftly recast as industrial fortresses.

The project reflects on altered landscapes, displaced memory, and places reshaped by structures devoted solely to logistics. These warehouses offer no gathering space—only transaction—illustrating the trade-offs of “next-day delivery,” as terrain is reorganized to serve digital interactions rather than local needs.