Archival material, ATL Container Freight Station (now ATL Logistics Centre) (1979–1994), Kwai Chung, Hong Kong 香港葵涌亞洲貨櫃大廈（現為亞洲貨櫃物流中心）（1979至1994年）檔案資料

The ATL Logistics Centre, designed by Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers, is located at Hong Kong’s Kwai Chung container terminal. It was completed in phases between 1986 and 1994, and is made up of a loading zone and two multistorey rectangular buildings; together, they contain more than eight hundred thousand square metres of floor space. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it was the world’s largest multilevel industrial building at the time of its opening.

The centre represents both an inventive manifestation of the ‘stacking’ phenomenon prompted by Hong Kong’s intense land pressures and the city’s role as one of the world’s busiest container ports, consolidating development that began in the 1960s. Its greatest innovation lies in its integrated circulation network—most visibly seen in its enormous ramps, but also in its extensive parking bays and internal roadways—that enables continuous vertical access and rapid loading and unloading of cargo by container trucks. This alleviates traffic congestion in the port while optimising land use. Inside, the complex hosts not only temperature-controlled warehouses and office spaces, but also post offices, convenience stores, and recreational and conference facilities. An average of eight thousand vehicles visit the site every day. Packed into an intensive urban fabric, the project’s multiple facets offer an alternative to low-density logistical landscapes worldwide.

This series consists of almost seventy scanned architectural drawings that comprehensively document the design of the centre, and almost twenty digital and physical photographs of the completed building.