The tiny and very hip French chain will be opening its first US outpost, with 76 rooms, in early 2015. Design is by Philippe Starck and the feel is either "urban kibbutz" or baby Château Marmont.

Dream Hotels is working on its first West Coast outpost on Selma right now; it'll have 182 rooms and design by Killefer Flammang.

Kimpton Hotels helped revive a long-languishing plan for a 16-story tower at Argyle and Hollywood and plans on a hotel with 225 rooms, restaurant space, and lots and lots of parking. It's unclear if this Coe Architecture rendering represents the current design.

Papers have just recently been filed to replace a small commercial building here with a 12-story hotel.

Across the street from Space 15 Twenty, there are plans for a 55-room hotel with a rooftop pool and bar, plus a restaurant.

Aterlier V is designing this six-story "European-style" boutique, which is set to have 80 rooms, a restaurant, a rooftop bar and deck, and a second-level courtyard with lap pool. Work isn't expected to start until at least mid-2016, though.

Ok, so the 35- and 39-story towers of Millennium Hollywood may sit on an active fault, but assuming the developers rearrange the plans enough for them to be built, they'll have a hotel with an observation deck on top, along with residential units, retail space, restaurants, offices, and a sports club.

The massive, block-sized Academy Square campus will have creative office space, retail and restaurants, and a 23-story tower that could possibly have up to 100 hotel rooms (if it doesn't go purely residential).

The legendary Villa Carlotta is being "repositioned" as an extended-stay luxury hotel with a rooftop lounge and "a number" of furnished units catering to traveling entertainment types.