"humble building" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a small structure that is more rudimentary and unassuming than other buildings, typically due to limited resources. For example: The small, humble building housed a simple room for people to rest and eat.
"It's a very humble building," Leadon said.
The school was established by the Hope Foundation in 1993, and teaching began in a humble building.
I found the imam's house, a humble building with just one room to a floor on one of two streets where Sunnis lived.
In contrast, just across the street sits a staid and humble building, designed as an auditorium when the Cold War was drawing to a close and then, for a time afterward, left vacant.
The humble building blocks for many clam chowders are salt pork (or bacon), potatoes and milk — inexpensive ingredients that any New England cook would have on hand — and, of course, clams.
In my own sightseeing as a superhero, one of the first destinations was my real-life apartment on 14th Street in the East Village; while I found Stuyvesant Town and Union Square, my humble building did not make the cut.
Like few other British building's in recent times, the new Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the London School of Economics shows just how vital it is that the design of relatively humble buildings is as ambitious as possible.
As people everywhere rush to transform the world, knocking down humble buildings in order to erect bigger ones, photographs, symbols of evanescence, may one day be the only proof that something else was ever there.
But his most compelling works remain his images of empty rooms and landscapes that are punctuated by humble buildings, fences and, oddly, tall, wooden structures identified in titles as totems.
That was 15 years ago, when he started the place in a humbler building directly across the street; he moved it eight years later to its larger current home adjoining the Blue Bay Inn, which Mr. Krikorian also owns and operates.
Here in its home base, the contraction has been even sharper, down to 1,100 local workers from 7,500 four years ago, and the company has moved from its glistening former headquarters, designed in part by the architect Cesar Pelli, to a humbler building a few blocks away.
