Jacques Torres opening a chocolate museum; Danny Meyer’s FiDi restaurant will have city’s highest ballroom

• Jacques Torres will soon open “Choco-Story New York, The Chocolate Museum and Experience with Jacques Torres” at his Hudson Square location. [Eater]
• The city is seeking proposals for the first publicly-funded virtual reality and augmented reality lab. [DNAinfo]
• Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group is opening a $30 million restaurant at 28 Liberty Street; its 60th-floor ballroom will be the highest in the city. [NYP]
• Spanish Catalan architects Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta of RCR Arquitectes have won the 2017 Pritzker Prize. [ArchDaily]
• Industry City-based Keap Candles has four new scents; this is their second collection launched through Kickstarter. [6sqft inbox]
• Last year, there was an increase of 600 million ride-share vehicles on city streets, the first time since 1989 that cars accounted for more growth in travel than transit. [Streetsblog]

Images: Jacques Torres’ location at 350 Hudson Street (L); 28 Liberty Street (R)