The half-mile-long building with a petting farm: Domino's Farms

Ann Arbor Township’s most famous building doesn’t go up — it goes sideways. Domino’s Farms, commissioned in the 1980s by Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, is a four-story “Prairie House” that stretches roughly half a mile across old Zeeb-family farmland: copper roofline, deep overhangs, brick and wood and bermed earth, all designed by architect Gunnar Birkerts in faithful homage to Monaghan’s hero, Frank Lloyd Wright. Architecture writers call it a “groundscraper,” and it’s one of the longest office buildings anywhere.

It’s also a genuinely public place. The Petting Farm at Domino’s Farms keeps cows, goats, sheep, and chickens for visiting families year-round, the campus hosts a farmers market and a famous drive-through Christmas light display, and bison have grazed the surrounding pastures. Plenty of office parks ask you to keep out; this one invites the whole township over. It’s a fitting landmark for a township that has kept so much of its rural feel despite sitting on Ann Arbor’s shoulder.