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15 December 2006
Countryside Properties has once again scooped gold for Accordia, its contemporary development in Cambridge. The housebuilder was awarded 'Best New Development' at the Daily Telegraph What House? Awards, coined 'the Oscars' of the housebuilding industry.
The Company was also awarded bronze for Best Volume Housebuilder.
The prestigious What House? Judging Panel, which is made up of industry professionals commented: "Countryside…is certainly a pioneer of urban regeneration and sustainable communities, but what always marks out the company is the sheer visual appeal of what it builds.
Master planning, strategic development and innovative design solutions provide a classic mix of the contemporary and the sustainable. The use of a range of architects, coupled with the vision to think literally 'outside the box', means visually outstanding new homes, adding to and often enhancing the architecture of the street or the sky.
This is what housebuilding in this country can achieve where there is a will and a passion."
This is the latest in a long line of awards for Accordia. Having already been acknowledged for its progressive design with a RIBA design award, Accordia recently won a Gold Building for Life Standard from CABE (The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), the Government's advisor on architecture, urban design and public space.
Accordia also won the Best New Family Home at the 2006 Evening Standard New Homes Awards for Accordia 'Air', the exceptional six bedroom show home.
A collection of 378 houses and apartments, Accordia has been masterplanned by awarding winning architects Feilden Clegg Bradley and supported by niche practices Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington. Unusually, the internal specification has also been developed by the architects who designed the properties and is a stunning extension of their original design vision. The remaining phases of Accordia have been sold to Redeham Homes Ltd.
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Information correct as at 15/12/2006