The phrase "a challenging building" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a building that presents difficulties in terms of design, construction, or functionality.
Example: "The architect faced numerous obstacles while designing a challenging building that would meet the client's unique requirements."
Alternatives: "a complex structure" or "a demanding construction".
Monique Gerbex, a work order scheduler from Wolcott, Vt., will be scheduling maintenance work in unfinished parts of the new station -- perhaps the most challenging building site on earth, where work never stops and ingenuity is a job requirement.
Not only has Downes produced a magnificent play on Borromini and his challenging buildings but he has exposed a baroque solar system, with characters spinning like planets around their star – Borromini – down through the centuries since his death; spinning, not in polite circles, but in elaborate geometries.
According to the recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and its target for the large-scale increase of nearly-zero energy buildings, nowadays a challenging task is the definition of standard high performing building types depending on location and specific climate conditions.
A challenging task of architects and other building professionals today is to design, and promote low energy buildings in a cost effective, and environmentally responsive way.
Whereas, we still observed reasonably-well GPS performance for traveling by bus and car in downtown Los Angeles (a challenging environment surrounded by tall buildings), with approximately 90% or more of the points within 20-m of selected surface streets in the area.
Mr. Williams conceded that the building "was certainly a challenging place to hang art" and said he regretted not giving the museum more arresting signage.
Finding life cycle optimized building designs is a challenging task.
Designing structural configurations for today's building structures is a challenging engineering activity that needs to be supported.
In spite of much recent research and some successful applications of vibration based damage detection methods to civil structures in recent years, the applications to asymmetric buildings has been a challenging task for structural engineers.
All in all, it is very important that the report or publication is written in a personal and challenging style, building on crowdsourced ideas.
