The Moshe-Safdie-designed Skirball Cultural Center finally got its last piece when this event space opened last fall.

Local starchitect Michael Maltzan's Star Apartments is made of prefabricated modules installed on top of an existing building in Skid Row. It houses supportive housing, services for tenants, and retail.

This beautiful outpost for Emerson College's semester-in-LA program—with state-of-the-art classrooms, event space, dorms, and offices—opened in March and is already enlivening a formerly-dead stretch in Hollywood.

After a long battle over location and a slightly shorter design contest, rich guy Eli Broad chose New Yorkers Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design his vanity museum on Bunker Hill (along with an adjacent plaza). Their "vault and the veil" design is expected to open sometime in 2015.

One of the slow-movingest projects in town, Robert AM Stern's 29-story hotel was first proposed in 2009; the site was finally cleared for work in 2011. If it's ever finished, it'll be the rare new Westwood hotel.

Archicritics have not been super happy with Renzo Piano's plans to attach a great glass sphere to the back of the historic May Company Building, right next door to his lackluster BCAM at LACMA. Still, it seems like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is sticking with these designs and the museum is set to open in 2017.

Frank Gehry was kicked off the enormous and ever-delayed Grand Avenue Project—which is supposed to add hotels, apartments, retail, and public space to the area around his Disney Hall—back in 2013, and the developers brought in Gensler and Robert AM Stern to create new designs. Officials positively hated those and now Gehry is back on the project with the best designs yet.

Last fall, Santa Monica shockingly rejected plans from Rem Koolhaas's firm OMA for one of its most coveted development sites (and that was after selecting OMA in a competition). But they took the firm back late in the year and new alternative designs are set to be released any day now.

We're still waiting on updated Cesar Pelli designs for the redevelopment of the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in design hotspot Santa Monica. Plans call for a tall tower with the hotel, condos, and retail, but the hotel will have to fend off all NIMBY challengers before it can get to work.

Richard Meier's big plan for fancy condos and retail is probably the least likely starchitecture project in LA at this point; it's been kicking around since 2007 and, just when it looked like work was starting this year, the site was put up for sale again.