LOL. The problem with this new addition doesn't have anything to do with any the view(s) of the mountain; if anything, it's the view of the Astral Tower that is, sadly, blocked from Ste Catherine st. That and it's just a horrible, mediocre-looking design at best. The volumes are terrible; bulky and inelegant.
Also, for such a high profile location, you'd think the architects and the developers would make sure to put out the BEST possible renderings for the public. This looks like a preliminary sketch drawn on the back of a cocktail napkin. It's lazy.
While the podium (Place Montreal Trust) does look dated and tired, it's possible to clean it up, streamline the look, perhaps lose many of the turquoise embellishments of Post-modernism AND add density that blends with the existing complex (tower included). Why disassociate the very successful tower - that is aging well from an aesthetic point of view - from the mall podium completely like this?