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low-rise
(low-rise)
adjective
1
(of a building) having few storeys:
low-rise apartment blocks
2
(of trousers) cut so as to fit low on the hips rather than on the waist:
low-rise jeans
noun
a building having few storeys:
they moved into this low-rise in Don Mills
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