Icicle House 03 wins Your Modern Cottage Award for best Small Cottage

“Syndicate Smith is the winner in YMC’s 2025 Design Awards Small Modern Cottages category.

This category celebrates new modern cottages that are small and efficient, but still accommodate a very comfortable, modern lifestyle. Cottages in this category were capped at 1,600 square feet.

Icicle House 03, tucked into a forested hillside near Leavenworth, WA, is just that—a 1,077 square feet, compact, vertical retreat that rises through the trees with quiet confidence.”

—YMC

Photography: Will Austin Photography