Domino's Farms
Main entrance to the Domino's corporate headquarters in Lobby F of the Prairie House | |
| Location | Ann Arbor Township, Michigan |
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| Coordinates | 42°19′2.5″N 83°40′57.8″W / 42.317361°N 83.682722°W |
| Use | Office park |
| Website | dominosfarms |
| Companies | |
| Architect | Gunnar Birkerts |
| Owner | Tom Monaghan |
| Technical details | |
| Size | Approximately 300 acres (120 ha) |
| Parking | 2,800 spaces |
Domino's Farms is an office park in Ann Arbor Charter Township, Michigan, centered around a four-story, 1⁄2-mile-long (0.80 km), Prairie style groundscraper known as the "Prairie House". Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan commissioned the complex in the early 1980s to serve as the company's headquarters, and Monaghan remains the owner of the complex after selling his stake in Domino's in 1998. The complex was designed by Gunnar Birkerts in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright, whom Monaghan admired.
Construction began in 1984, and the sixth and final phase of the Prairie House was fully completed in 2005. Michigan Medicine is a major tenant of the complex, which also includes test kitchens for Domino's and a petting zoo.
Early concepts for the approximately 300-acre (120 ha) site, located just east of the Ann Arbor city limits, included a circular layout for the campus and a 30-story skyscraper. These plans were refined into the linear configuration that was eventually built. A scale model of the unbuilt skyscraper, nicknamed the "Leaning Tower of Pizza," stands in a field on the west side of the campus. Another unbuilt concept for Domino's Farms included a campus of Ave Maria University, a Catholic university founded by Monaghan that instead moved to Collier County, Florida, in the mid-2000s.