Gordon Bunshaft’s Beinecke Library at Yale University is well known to architects—the 1963 building’s translucent granite facade appears in coffee table books around the world.

The white marble facade of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library looked very different on the night of Feb. 11, as it was lit up with a giant game of Mario Kart. Danilo Rosich ’24, a sophomore ...