  ACORDE is one of the ALICE detectors, presently under construction at CERN.
It consists of an array of plastic scintillator counters placed on the three
upper faces of the ALICE magnet. It will act as a cosmic ray trigger, and,
together with other ALICE sub-detectors, will provide precise information on
cosmic rays with primary energies around $10^{15} \div 10^{-17}$ eV. Here we
describe the design review of ACORDE along with the present status and
integration into ALICE.
