Property Details

Summary of Property

A two bedroom apartment within the Accordia Glass development.

Environmentally Friendly Features

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Dimensions of Rooms (m)

Details of Garden or Outside Space

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Transport & Local Amenities

Further Information

The green oak frame surrounding Accordia Glass provides a visually striking feature to support the extensive timber decked terraces, which overlook Hobsons Brook.

Accordia Glass features a variety of two and three bedroom apartments and duplexes. From vast double height reception rooms and entire walls of glazing to movable partition walls, these exceptional properties offer the ultimate in flexible contemporary living.

All of the homes at Accordia have had their specification developed by the architects who designed the properties. This has created an interior that blends seamlessly with the design of the building and truly reflects the original vision of the architect.

Accordia Glass, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, offers an exceptional specification including:
• Contemporary linear design kitchens with high level shelves and under-shelf lighting. The striking white gloss laminate unit doors have stainless steel handles, white laminate worktops with solid oak edges, and a glass splashback.
• Stainless steel kitchen appliances from AEG
• Timber veneer strip flooring
• Italian sanitary ware from Flaminia, baths from Kaldewei and brassware from Borma.
• Luxurious limestone (reconstituted) bathroom flooring and matching wall tiles.
• Under floor heating with individual room temperature control
• Home networking facility
• Colour video entry phone system
• NACOSS approved burglar alarm
• Timber decking on all private terraces and balconies.
Accordia is a range of 382 contemporary apartments and townhouses just one mile from Cambridge City Centre. These homes have already won an international design award and are being created in tree-lined avenues and squares around large open lawns and 'green streets' close to the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens in Brooklands Avenue.

Set within mature landscaping along Brooklands Avenue in Cambridge, Accordia offers a diverse range of architecturally dynamic and highly innovative new apartments and townhouses, designed to bring the outside into your life.

Already the holder of a prestigious RIBA design award, Accordia challenges the traditional concept of a new home, blending simplicity of design and form with a palette of natural materials in a highly contemporary way.

Open-plan living is at the heart of Accordia, with double height spaces and split levels adding impact and light to the superb interiors. Inner courtyards, terraces and large expanses of glazing further blur the conventional boundaries of a new home, bringing the outside in.

Countryside Properties has been recognised by the World Wildlife Fund as the leading housebuilder for its outstanding contribution towards sustainable development.

Accordia has a very strong environmental agenda both in many of the materials used for construction, and in the design of the homes. Key environmental considerations include:
• 'Green roofs' to the apartment buildings, which have high insulating properties and significantly reduce rainwater runoff. The limited runoff is filtered before flowing into Hobsons Brook, via the newly created swales and reedbeds
• All insulation materials with zero ozone depletion qualities
• Minimum 'A' rated energy efficiency kitchen appliances
• Several house designs with studios ideal for use as home offices, and all properties have data cabling
To encourage cycling there is a network of cycle paths throughout Accordia, and every home has storage space for at least two cycles. Accordia has excellent links to public transport and its close proximity to Cambridge city centre helps give it sustainability on every level.

The framework for Accordia has been dictated by the existing, natural landscape and in particular by over 700 mature trees that have been carefully preserved.

From productive gardens with fruit trees, herbs and berries to formal lawns, reedbeds and meadows, the existing mature landscape has been enhanced with new and diverse green spaces between the mews courts, streets and squares.

Over a third of the development is open space with each home designed to overlook one of the green spaces. Running along the west boundary of Accordia is Hobsons Brook, an important wildlife corridor for Cambridge.

Each green space is clearly defined by walls, hedges or boundaries and is linked to the next by a network of footpaths. Low key streets, homezones and subtle traffic calming make Accordia a place for people, a green oasis in a city centre location.

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Details last updated: 2009-01-18 12:04:23

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