Vision of how new £12m Stourbridge College campus in Brierley Hill will look

This striking image show how a new college campus in Brierley Hill town centre will look when complete.

The artist's impression depicts a cutting edge building with a glass frontage which will dominate the skyline on the old Brier School site.

One of the designs, which has been released ahead of a ground-breaking ceremony today, is entitled 'New Build at Dusk'.

It shows how the Stourbridge College campus will look against a setting sun. Builders have started on the £12 million creative industries campus, to host arts and digital based courses.

Workers are currently pegging out and measuring the boundaries before the ground is dug up.

An original £31m scheme had to be scaled back at the start of the year due to funding problems. The building will house up to 1,000 students and will be open next September.

It is designed as a replacement for the outdated Longlands campus in Stourbridge and has been created by architects Pick Everard.

Principal Lynette Cutting said when the revised plans were announced: "Financial restrictions have meant that we have scaled down our initial designs in order to provide an exciting building which represents excellent value for money."

Bosses had to salvage the scheme after the Learning and Skills Council withdrew £15m of pledged funding.

The college is designing a piece of public artwork to display inside the building.