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Over the course of 2025, Collecdev-Markee Developments' Cielo Condos, designed by KPMB Architects, advanced from its first moves above grade to reaching the halfway point of its 34-storey rise by year’s end. Rising at the northwest corner of Bloor Street West and Huron Street in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood, the podium incorporates the retained Gothic Revival stone walls of Bloor Street United Church and the Victorian-era George C. Pidgeon House, with ERA Architects overseeing heritage conservation.
This drone view from January, 2025 captured excavation and below-grade formwork complete, as the ground floor slab spans the site, serving as a staging platform for the next phase. The luffing-jib crane rises near the centre alongside a red concrete boom pump, while stacks of rebar, formwork panels, and bundled materials are organized across the slab. To the north, materials are staged beside the heritage retention scaffold supporting the George C. Pidgeon House. The retained Gothic Revival walls of Bloor Street United Church remain wrapped and braced at the east edge.
A March, 2025 view looking north captured the future entryway to the central promenade. In the foreground, rebar rises from the sub-grade level. To the left, a cylindrical cast-in-place concrete column and shoring posts support the recently poured second-floor slab. Further back, newly formed concrete walls define the interior volume of McClure Hall, a shared community space that will anchor the podium and connect to the north garden POPS (Privately-Owned Publicly-accessible Space).
In an April, 2025 view looking southeast from across Madison Avenue, work progresses to the third floor, bringing the new concrete structure close to the height of the retained church walls. Formwork and freshly poured concrete define the western edge of the podium. At grade, a mobile crane and other construction vehicles support material handling. In the foreground, scaffolding and white protective tarping envelop a Victorian house related to the KESKUS Estonian Cultural Centre, a project underway concurrently just next door.
This third floor view May, 2025 view looking northeast captures new concrete construction rising tightly around the preserved church walls. Multiple podium floors are now formed, with red edge protection lining the slabs and shoring posts supporting the curing decks from below. Meanwhile, an opening in the ground floor slab below accommodates future installation of the automated car-stacking system.
By June, 2025 podium construction had climbed to the fourth floor with preparations underway for the fifth. Looking southwest across Huron Street in July, 2025 shows the north elevation reaching six storeys, marking the completion of the podium. At the centre, a taller ground-floor bay signals the future garage entrance, while canted concrete columns along the north face establish the structural interface that will connect the podium to a steel structure over the Line 1 and 2 subway tunnels below.
The structure had climbed swiftly from the completed podium into the mid-teen residential floors by October, 2025. Throughout the summer, podium construction progressed alongside the rising KESKUS Estonian Cultural Centre to the west, with both projects advancing simultaneously and sharing tight staging conditions.
This November, 2025 view looking north from across Bloor marked a major milestone for Cielo Condos as the tower reached half of its ultimate 34-storey height. Rising above the completed podium, the concrete frame now stands at 17 storeys in this image, with formwork and slab decking positioned for the next level, and red edge protection lining each completed floor-plate. The stepped podium massing along Bloor Street is clearly defined below, transitioning from the four-storey volume fronting the street to the taller fifth-floor level that supports the residential tower above.
As construction moves into 2026, the tower will continue rising, with the concrete frame anticipated to climb toward its full height of 130.35m. Upon completion, Cielo Condos will deliver 349 residential suites to the Annex.
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