Moving to London.

After finishing his studies as structural engineer and architect in 1999, Mathias moved to London to work on the design of the New Law Courts building in Antwerp for VK group and Richard Rogers Partnership. From 2002 Kerremans was full time on  site of the Law Courts in Antwerp, until its completion in 2005.

After half a year of travelling Mathias joined the office of Foster and Partners in London (2006). His team  worked on several international projects and competitions, including the Red October chocolate factory (a restoration project of an old chocolate factory in the centre of Moscow, 30,000 m2), Project Orange (Design for a mixed use scheme in Moscow, 180,000 m2), Hermitage Towers (a twin tower project in Paris, 90,000 m2). 

In 2009 he was responsible for the execution of a residential project in Rabat, Morocco (Bab Al Bahr project 400,000 m2). 

In July 2010 Kerremans left his position as associate partner at Foster to start his office smak architects in Belgium. Together with VHH London, SMAK Architects won the competition to build a school in Eeklo under the ‘Scholen van morgen’ program (OLV Ten Doorn, 11.000 m2, 2012-2018).

The Brussels experience.

While developing SMAK Architects, Mathias worked as lead designer for B2Ai Brussels, where he designed with his team projects such as The One (a mixed use tower for Atenor, 38.000 m2) , Zuidzicht  (A waterfront residential scheme for Kolmont, 35,000 m2), Campus Comenius (a School and Community Campus for Kairos, 12,500 m2) and an award winning school building A la Croisée des Chemins (Neder-Over-Heembeek, 8,200 m2) for the city of Brussels.

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In 2018 Mathias has left his position as lead designer at B2AI to focus on developing SMAK Architects.