During his career, Paul has built up a broad oeuvre, from visions to master plans, from urban plans to layout plans with details scale 1:5 and planting plans. Not only in Rotterdam where he realized the master plan for Kop van Zuid, a contribution to the Singel Plan, the design guideline for the Rotterdam garden cities, and the design for the Garden of North, but he also worked throughout the Netherlands: the Development Vision NoordZaan Zaanstad, the design for the Mercator square, the station area of Tilburg, the vision for the Eindhoven campus. And recently the Climate Adaptation Route Map Post-war Neighborhoods and Kanaaleiland Utrecht.

With his work, he shows that he is a true craftsman, who has mastered the craft of designing public space down to the last detail. For Paul, a thorough and in-depth analysis is paramount in the design; both cultural-historical and spatial, not only from a landscape but also from an urban planning perspective. His designs are characterized by their modest, sometimes sober, but very clear and powerful design. One coherent concept from large to small and worked out in detail, with attention to materialization and love for planting.

Due to the corona pandemic, the 2023 Bijhouwer Prize was awarded to Paul Achterberg in 2024.

Yttje has been active as a landscape architect in many different ways: as a national government advisor, as a designer of stature on all scales, as a skilled partner in many partnerships, as a co-partner of a successful design agency, as a sharp participant in juries and quality teams, and as an inspiring teacher and mentor for the new generation of landscape architects. Her visibility in the professional debate in the form of advice, lecture or publication and clear affinity with transferring knowledge to students are aspects of her practice that are close to the core values of the NHBOS Foundation.
Yttje Feddes used the Bijhouwer Prize for the publication of the book 'Vakvrouwen'.

The 2017 Bijhouwer Prize was awarded to the Rijkswaterstaat Programme Directorate Room for the River, represented by Ingwer de Boer, Cor Beekmans and Regina Havinga. The major work on the re-profiling of the Waal, the Rhine and the IJssel, which was carried out on the basis of the 2006 Planning Core Decision, was nearing completion, which is why this moment was chosen to award the prize. The promotion of the spatial quality of the river area has taken shape in 30 different projects, spread along the rivers, 29 of which have been completed. Guided by the Programme Directorate Room for the River and the Spatial Quality Cluster, many landscape architects, both civil servants and private individuals, have shown their most helpful, social face in a context of civil engineering, river management and nature development. The approach of Room for the River has contributed to the field being able to fully participate in the major spatial challenges related to climate adaptation. The laureate has spent the Bijhouwer Prize on a short film highlighting the newly realized scenic beauty along the major rivers.

The fourth Bijhouwer Prize in 2014 was awarded to Meto Vroom, emeritus professor of Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University. This award recognizes Vroom's decades-long commitment to the scientific, methodological aspects of the profession in the context of spatial planning, land development and water management. His mission was to increase the social relevance, spatial impact and substantive verifiability of the profession. During his professorship, hundreds of landscape architects were trained and the profession grew from a small craft circle to a fully-fledged, service-oriented and differentiated discipline. After his retirement, Vroom continued his work: he published various professional publications and, thanks to his international network, was the driving force behind the creation of the Landscape Architecture Europe yearbook series. Meto Vroom spent the Bijhouwer Prize on the publication of 'Leren kijken', a personal reflection on Wageningen education and research in garden and landscape architecture. Prior to the award ceremony, art historian Marinke Steenhuis delivered the Bijhouwer lecture.

The third Bijhouwer Prize went to the landscape architects of the municipal Engineering Office The Hague in 2011. For more than twenty years, the municipal designers have been working on the structural improvement of the spatial quality of The Hague's outdoor space. The redesign of parks, canals, streets and squares, the carriers of urban coexistence, is given shape in a consistent, integral and controlled manner. The awarding of the prize underlines how important it is that the development of the urban outdoor space is recognized as a public matter and is adequately managed at the local level. For a long time, the municipality of The Hague has managed to create the conditions under which well-trained and well-integrated landscape designers could work on their projects loyally and in relative anonymity.

The second Bijhouwer Prize was awarded in 2008 to WEST 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture from Rotterdam. Since its foundation in 1987, the firm has been of great value to the Dutch profession. With its international oeuvre, events and publications, the firm has contributed to landscape architecture acquiring a strong, recognizable position in relation to architecture and urban planning in recent decades. The prize is also a token of recognition for the activities that the partners of the firm, Adriaan Geuze in particular, have developed in the area of influencing spatial policy and stirring up the public debate in the field of urban development and landscape protection.