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Cladding installation is now underway at Cielo Condos<\/a> as construction progresses. Designed by KPMB Architects<\/a> for Collecdev-Markee Developments<\/a>, the 34-storey condominium is rising at the northwest corner of Bloor Street West and Huron Street in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood. With ERA Architects<\/a> overseeing heritage conservation, the podium will retain the Gothic Revival stone walls of Bloor Street United Church and the Victorian-era George C. Pidgeon House to the north.\u00a0<\/p>\n In December, 2025, the shot below from across Bloor Street shows the concrete frame had climbed to roughly 20 storeys, with formwork set at the uppermost level for the next wall pours at the 21st floor. The stepped podium volume projecting toward Bloor is fully formed below, its slab edges lined with red perimeter safety screens. It will accommodate both office space and a mix of residential support spaces, including McClure Hall, and circulation area linking to the future north garden POPS (Privately-Owned Publicly-accessible Space). At grade, steel retention scaffolds brace the preserved Gothic Revival stone walls of Bloor Street United Church, with the twin towers and green-patinated roofs rising intact in front of the new structure.\u00a0<\/p>\n From a couple blocks to the west, Cielo Condos is now registering prominently in the Annex skyline. A construction hoist tracks up the west elevation, a few floors shy of the active work deck above, while the luffing-jib crane is centred over the structure next to a red concrete boom pump.\u00a0<\/p>\n Viewed earlier this month from Madison Avenue and immediately behind the rising KESKUS Estonian Cultural Centre, work on Cielo’s west elevation shows precast brick cladding has been installed across the first four podium floors. Two of the window openings on the second level are now fitted with glazing and louvres. At the third and fourth floors, exposed slab edges are lined with blue and white weatherproofing. Above the podium, a single tower floor, partially hidden, has received glazing and dark spandrel panels.<\/p>\n Turning to the east elevation, the new building rises directly behind the preserved stone walls. At the podium levels, sawtooth slab edges indicate a future zig-zag profile, while to the right side of the frame a line of canted columns are poised to support a pronounced cantilevered volume. Aluminum strips on the fifth-floor slab edge await cladding materials. Above, the tower reads as two vertical volumes separated by a recessed central bay, with projecting floors and balcony slabs on the left, lined with temporary red safety fencing and supported by shoring posts while the concrete cures.\u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the north elevation shows the concrete frame climbing to roughly 25 storeys. Partially visible behind trees to the right, the restored George C. Pidgeon House will eventually be connected to the building to the south via a section of podium cantilevered over the subway tunnels in the ground below.\u00a0<\/p>\n Once complete, Cielo Condos will rise 130.35m and deliver 349 residential suites to the Annex.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n UrbanToronto’s research and data service,\u00a0UTPro<\/a>, provides comprehensive data on construction projects in the Greater Golden Horseshoe\u2014from proposal through to completion. Other services include\u00a0Instant Reports<\/a>, downloadable snapshots based on location, and a daily subscription newsletter,\u00a0New Development Insider<\/a>, that tracks projects from initial application.\u200b<\/p>\n <\/imgx><\/imgx><\/imgx><\/imgx><\/imgx><\/imgx><\/div>\n