Pennsylvania building ‘most loved’ in the U.S.: report

Architecture has long been awe-inspiring.

And one building in Pennsylvania has topped a list of the most architecturally appreciated in the country.

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Buildworld — a U.K.-based website that seeks to “connect buyers who are looking for top quality building materials at competitive prices” — set out on a mission to find the “most loved” buildings in the world.

In order to do this, researchers first compiled a list of the most famous buildings in every country via manual research. Once this list was complete, researchers then searched each building against Twitter posts to analysis which has the most positive or negative sentiment attached to them.

The final study revealed how the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Fallingwater house in Mill Run, Fayetteville County was the number one beloved building in the entirety of the United States, coming in front of the Empire State Building in New York, N.Y. (second place) and Coit Tower in San Francisco, Calif. (third).

“Wright’s masterpiece Fallingwater home in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, is the most revered [in the U.S.] — with 65.1% positive tweets about its design,” reads the study. “Manhattan buildings dominate the top 10, with five, including the Empire State Building (63% positive tweets) and One World Trade Center (51.9% positive tweets), attracting high praise on Twitter for their architecture.”

Indeed, PennLive’s Marcus Schneck previously wrote about the site’s design, with Vice President of the Conservancy of Fallingwater, Justin Gunther, noting the structure’s “harmonious relationship between architecture and nature.”

On an international level, Osaka Castle in Japan was crowned as the most loved building in the world.