Lets do this conversation without any architect / design language and discuss the reality of the design.
Unless you are building an ultra-luxury condo / Landmark office / public facility (University/event space/hospital/etc) you are not going to have the budget or the inefficiency of space use (eg. wasted space on weird floorplates / dead zones) that would allow something groundbreaking and different.
This project was built in the context of building a typical high end apartment building. To build these, as you must know as an architect, you are in a battle of efficiency to get it to pencil for a developer. You dont have much room to deviate.
So within that context you are left with a lot of glass boxes of varying sizes with slightly different glass colors and minor detailing.
In my view what Vinoly did is take a highly efficient but distinct design of "bundled tubes" (even if thats not the structural system) that maintains all the efficiency of typical apartments but creates something more iconic / distinct. Yes its just a copy and not groundbreaking but it is different / better than the alternative.
I guess my TL
R is just this isnt high design. Its apartment boxes and we will take what we can get when someone can do something even slightly different.
Also for the 2nd tower. Its in the central station PD, but its still within the downtown zone so buying FAR would be easy. And while there are unit limits for the PD, I would be shocked if any mega-PD like Central Station actually hit their limit. Like LSE has more than enough units, they will run out of density before they run out of allowable units.