LOL, you are really digging your heals in. The design is so far from rubbish and a very sharp looking tower harir Pontarini has a pretty solid track record of delivering quality structures in this city. Also I'm not sure why you keep bringing up historic Victorian Toronto when this about a proposal that sits on land that never had any buildings in the first place. Unless there was some Victorian Atlantis below the lake surface only you seem to know about.
There was nothing on this lot except for maybe buried docks or sunken ships worth saving.
source:
https://hariripontarini.com
Victorian Times same location.
source:
https://jooinn.com