Equinox is a shared services company formed as a joint venture between Lancaster plc and Ernst & Young to provide back office accounting and procurement facilities to car dealerships throughout the UK.  The project consisted of the fit-out of a new building in a business park on the outskirts of Newcastle still lacking in social and other support facilities.  The problem was therefore to provide a strategy for growth and  some sense of community for those first recruited to join the new organisation.  Training facilities are located in an informal and flexible fashion on the ground floor and the corner joining each wing of the upper floors is filled in to form a break-out space with views over the landscaped courtyard.  Office space is organised on a very simple basis but with close attention to the location of services to minimise cost and disruption as the organisation changes and grows.