A 

warehouse is a building for storing goods.[1][2] Warehouses are used

by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They
are usually large plain buildings in industrial parks on the outskirts of cities, towns, or villages.

History about warehouse[edit]

Prehistory and ancient history[edit]
A warehouse can be defined functionally as a building in which to store bulk produce or goods
(wares) for commercial purposes. The built form of warehouse structures throughout time
depends on many contexts: materials, technologies, sites, and cultures.
In this sense, the warehouse postdates the need for communal or state-based mass storage of
surplus food. Prehistoric civilizations relied on family- or community-owned storage pits, or
‘palace’ storerooms, such as at Knossos, to protect surplus food. The archaeologist Colin
Renfrew argued that gathering and storing agricultural surpluses in Bronze Age Minoan ‘palaces’
was a critical ingredient in the formation of proto-state power.[4]

Ruined warehouses in Ostia; an ancient Roman city

The need for warehouses developed in societies in which trade reached a critical mass requiring
storage at some point in the exchange process. This was highly evident in ancient Rome, where
the horreum (pl. horrea) became a standard building form.[5]  The most studied examples are
in Ostia, the port city that served Rome. The Horrea Galbae, a warehouse complex on the road
towards Ostia, demonstrates that these buildings could be substantial, even by modern
standards. Galba's horrea complex contained 140 rooms on the ground floor alone, covering an
area of some 225,000 square feet (21,000 m²). As a point of reference, less than half of U.S.
warehouses today are larger than 100,000 square feet (9290 m²).[6]

Medieval Europe[edit]

A Sust, a Middle Ages type of warehouse, in Horgen, Switzerland

The need for a warehouse implies having quantities of goods too big to be stored in a domestic
storeroom. But as attested by legislation concerning the levy of duties, some medieval merchants
across Europe commonly kept goods in their large household storerooms, often on the ground
floor or cellars.[7][8]An example is the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, the substantial quarters of German
traders in Venice, which combined a dwelling, warehouse, market and quarters for travellers.[9]
From the Middle Ages on, dedicated warehouses were constructed around ports and other
commercial hubs to facilitate large-scale trade. The warehouses of the trading port Bryggen in
Bergen, Norway (now a World Heritage site), demonstrate characteristic European gabled timber
forms dating from the late Middle Ages, though what remains today was largely rebuilt in the
same traditional style following great fires in 1702 and 1955.