0 A low-rise building is one with only one or two floors.
1 Low-rise trousers have the top part ending lower than the waist.
2 used to describe an apartment or office building that only has a few floors:
low-rise apartments/buildings/housing
Although land costs were indeed lower for low-rise flats, there were in fact low financial gains to dense building after six storeys.
The site was occupied by low-rise government offices built in the 1940s, and contains in excess of 700 mature trees.
They could be arranged around the perimeter of the site as low-rise terraces.
I can respect that, but let's just talk about women my age that wear low-rise pants, and a lot of them have big hips, there's no way around that!
The problem pepper-pots all over our estates—low-rise flats, semis and detached property.
Such schemes have been blocked although they offered important opportunities for the refurbishment and redevelopment of low-rise properties which would have improved the environment.
The security problems of 488 low-rise flats, which were among the last buildings to be constructed on the site, will also be addressed.
A further example was found with another low-rise system in my constituency under which many houses were built.
