The world has many amazing buildings, from the 2000-year-old pantheon in Rome to the gleaming new Burge Khalifa in Dubai.

Humanity is often reflected in its buildings.

However, some of the greatest architectural concepts were buildings that were never built.

Whether it was due to a lack of money, having ideas before the technology to build it was available,

or just pure insanity, many of the greatest ideas for buildings were never constructed.

Learn more about the greatest buildings that were never built and why they never saw the light

of day on this episode of Everything everywhere daily. The Genesis of this episode came about from researching several notable architects.

Having created some of the world's greatest

ideas were ones that were put to paper but could never be built. There are a host of

reasons why great ideas for buildings never see completion. The most common reason is lack of funding.

For example, construction has already started on the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, which if completed,

would be the tallest building in the world at one kilometer tall.

However, finances and contract issues caused construction to stop in 2018

when it was only a third completed.

One of the first buildings that was never created that I wanted to touch on was one called the

Senetaph of Newton. A Senetaph is just a monument to someone who died, that's not their tomb.

The Senetaph of Newton was a proposed structure that was to

honor Isaac Newton. It was designed by the 18th century French architect Etienne Louis Boulet.

Newton, who died in 1726, had become an icon of the Enlightenment by the late 18th century.

To honor Newton, Boulet proposed the construction of a structure that would have been one of the

greatest buildings on Earth. It would have been a gigantic sphere that would have been a

gigantic sphere that would have been a 150 meters or 500 feet tall. The sphere

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