"deserted building" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used to describe a building that has been left or abandoned, giving the impression of being empty or lonely. Example: The group of friends explored the deserted building on the outskirts of town, marveling at the broken windows and overgrown ivy that covered its walls.
Lunch is over, and we make our way down through the deserted building.
Who scratched warning marks on those walls, who disturbs deserted building sites?
And who was this strangler in the balaclava whom she ends up having to shoot in the stylish deserted building?
The F.B.I.'s offer came in October of last year, at the end of a three-hour conversation — a private debrief — in the nearly deserted building that had been a center of intrigue in cold war Berlin.
In 1638 the deserted building was occupied by the Solitaires (hermits), pious laymen and secular priests who lived without vows or a definite rule under the spiritual guidance of Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, abbot of Saint-Cyran and a friend of Cornelius Jansen.
A taxi driver takes you to Nicosia's equivalent of Checkpoint Charlie: the Ledra Palace gate, a place of eerie quiet with a police post, posters of Turkish atrocities and, visible through a deserted building opposite the Greek embassy, brightly coloured political murals reminiscent of Belfast and Berlin.You tell the police that you want to visit the Turkish zone.
Higher on the banks, deserted buildings rot in the summer heat.
Children should be told not to play in isolated areas or inside or near deserted buildings.
Also, many people from Aleppo's countryside moved to the city and occupied deserted buildings.
Criminals renting deserted buildings they do not own to unsuspecting tenants.
The thuds of artillery fire rocked the street and the crackle of machine guns echoed between the deserted buildings.
