The phrase "a flat building" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a building that has a flat roof or a building that is not tall, often in contrast to skyscrapers or multi-story structures.
Example: "The new community center is a flat building designed to blend in with the surrounding landscape."
Alternatives: "a single-story building" or "a low-rise structure".
The house, which Mr. Turton would only say cost several million dollars to build, is supported on piles because what had appeared to be a flat building site — the area left after a previous house was demolished — turned out to be loose fill.
Faye's own underlying story – a divorce, a move back to London, the purchase of a flat, building work, conflict with nightmare neighbours downstairs – remains the core of the book, the thread on which the rest is strung.
Behind it stands a flat building on a hill with a terrace the casino of IG Farben and the Officers Club of the US Army ("The Terrace Club"), which now houses a refectory and lecture-rooms.
They generally need a flat building pad on which to be positioned.
Bibiena, however, used perspective with two vanishing points; if this technique were used to render a large, flat building as seen from one corner of it, for example, the base and roof lines of one side extended into the distance would appear to meet at some point off to the right and those of the other side at another point off to the left.
RIVER TOWN HOUSE, HASTINGS Christina Griffin, an architect in Hastings-on-Hudson, converted a 1910 railroad flat building into two condominiums, in accordance with the highest level of LEED certification.
He had been seen trying to pick a lock in the Stewart Avenue flat building with the long knife, and one of the detectives, with the janitor, had given chase.
Drawing from his education and business acumen, he co-wrote "Competing in a Flat World: Building Enterprises for a Borderless World" (Wharton School Publishing, 2007).
INDIANAPOLIS — Integrated Fighting Academy sits in a well-manicured office park along the southern rim of the city, sharing a flat concrete building with a security system supply company and a lawn with a flock of geese.
Nonlinear finite element simulation using calibrated concrete thermal and mechanical properties is carried out on a flat plate building.
The calibrated models are then adopted to perform a nonlinear finite element simulation on a flat plate building subjected to fire.
