"broken building" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a building that is damaged or in disrepair. Here is an example: "The abandoned city was filled with broken buildings, their windows shattered and walls crumbling."
The ground around the hulking reactor buildings was littered with mangled trucks, twisted metal beams and broken building frames, left mostly as they were after one of the world's largest recorded earthquakes started a chain reaction that devastated the region and, to some extent, Japan.
Peeking into a once-grand entryway, now draped in poverty, I saw masses of creative wiring creating a confused black web above broken building material coated with grime.
Today, it is a broken building of tattered walls and shattered glass.
"We are really happy to have the foreigners here," said Mrs. Gago as she sold grilled meat from a broken building, her hungry children sitting around her. "The foreigners have made everything safe.
Rebuild the broken building with 40,000 gold.
Row after row of shattered and broken buildings line the streets in this town 20 miles from Kathmandu.
The wave's aftereffects – broken buildings, torn fishing nets, scarred boats and scraps of clothing – now lie alongside and among the historic remains from before.
After the earthquake in Sichuan in 2008, for example, he campaigned against the corruption and cover-ups that led local officials to build schools that broke building regulations, and collapsed at the earth's first quiver.
In a place where land is at a premium, unscrupulous builders often break building laws to add additional floors to existing structures, built high with little space between each house.
Firstly, socioeconomic variables and land use variables were broken into building gross floor area (GFA), and secondly the number of buildings and activities in each zone was measured.
Aspiring executives spent much of the time explaining all the basic business tenets the Jakes had broken in building Threadless.
