Unique among design award programs, the Business Week/Architectural Record Awards evaluate entries on both their architectural aesthetic quality and how the project advances the client's business goals.  The Hanjin Container Terminal Entry Complex  at the Port of Long Beach is among ten projects selected for the 2000 Business Week/ Architectural Record Awards.  We are honored to be in the company of the other international selections published in both Architectural Record Magazine and Business Week.

Robert Stewart Architects was responsible for design of the buildings that comprise the entry gate complex which include the administration building (gate house), entry guard buildings, camera and sign structures, truck canopy, and driver services building.  Through the collaborative efforts of Hanjin and Total Terminals Inc., the design team was able to understand and successfully design a terminal in response to the companyís operational process and its goal to increase productivity.

Hanjin's business mission statement for this terminal was to develop a new facility that would facilitate projected future cargo volume increases, as well as to increase productivity by improving terminal organization, traffic flow, and the collaboration of three worker groups.  Hanjin's goal was to move 500,000 TEU (twenty-foot containers) through the terminal each year.  The results far exceeded that goal with Hanjin becoming one of the Port of Long Beach's largest operating terminals.  In 1999, two years after moving into the new terminal, Hanjin made the equivalent of 1 million 20-foot shipping container moves, twice the 1995 goal!