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Rising in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood, the 34-storey Cielo Condos — designed by KPMB Architects for Collecdev-Markee Developments — retains the Gothic Revival walls of the Bloor Street United Church which it is behind built behind. Those walls, and those of the 19th-century George C. Pidgeon House will be incorporated into Cielo's podium, with ERA Architects overseeing the preservation efforts.
Since UrbanToronto’s last update in September, 2024, when a luffing-jib crane was installed, sub-grade construction has continued to make steady progress. A south-facing drone shot from October, 2024 puts the Cielo site in the centre, framed by tree-lined streets and historic buildings of the Annex. Two concrete mixer trucks are positioned along Huron Street, feeding fresh mix into a red concrete boom pump that extends into forms to create the underground garage. Just in front of the trees, the Pidgeon House stands with its heritage walls preserved.
Coming closer, we peer southeast to the walls of the church, wrapped in white weatherproofing materials and supported by its heritage retention scaffold system. To the left of the crane is the ground floor staging slab completed earlier this year, and on the right, a red concrete boom pump is now installed in the pit. It is surrounded by rebar, concrete, and formwork, with preparations for the concrete pour for the floor slab of the third underground level.
This top-down view provides a clear layout of the site: the shoring walls run along the perimeter, meeting the hoarding at the southwest (upper-left) corner along Bloor Street. The rectangular ground floor staging slab extends along the east side, currently serving as a material staging area. At the northeast (lower-right) corner is the Pidgeon House, with additional materials and formwork organized around it. When completed, the Pidgeon House will be connected to the tower to the south via the second level of the podium.
Arriving at grade, this image facing north from Bloor Street highlights progress at the west end of the site. Newly formed concrete walls define the next level of the underground garage, with formwork prepared for upcoming pours adjacent to the crane. To the right, concrete pillars support the completed ground floor staging slab, while a concrete mixing truck is stationed at grade. Steel rakers that provide reinforcement at the northwest corner following the forming of the outer wall are smaller than those that were there during an earlier phase of the excavation.
As construction steadily reaches grade and beyond, Cielo will rise to a final height of 130.35m and house 349 residential units.
UrbanToronto will continue to follow progress on this development, but in the meantime, you can learn more about it from our Database file, linked below. If you'd like, you can join in on the conversation in the associated Project Forum thread or leave a comment in the space provided on this page.
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