2010 architects Helle Søholt and Jan Gehl, Gehl Architects, for the couple's compelling way to bring focus on the human dimension of urban planning worldwide, with the slogan: Cities for people.
2009 Richard Leplastrier for his understanding of the true meaning of sustainability, based on a philosophy best summed up by the motto: ‘Let’s cultivate less!’
2008 Steen Høyer for his inspiring work in developing the art of landscaping and setting guiding quality frameworks for sustainable development of open land.
2007 Erik Christian Sørensen for his lifelong contribution to architecture and his unique work as an instructor and professor at the School of Architecture. Erik Christian Sørensen’s architecture is a model for many generations of architects.
2006 Jørn Utzon has through his way of working in the discipline been able to clarify the connection between inspiration, ideas, creation and work in a way that means he will always be an instructive and inspiring role model for others.
2005 Drafting studio Entasis at the architecture firm Signe and Christian Cold for its sensitive and calculated implementation of its projects, which are carried out with brilliance, magic, unusually high quality and great awareness of architectural methods.
2004 Jens Markus Lindhe for his impressive work as an architect and architecture photographer. Through his architect’s glasses, he sees and finds the soul of the objects that he photographs.
2003 Stig Lennart Andersson for unusual sensitivity, discipline and respect for details and materials.
2003 Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen for her ability to maturely, originally and independently interpret the times.
2002 Lene Tranberg and Boje Lundgaard for their significant artistic work on many beautiful buildings across a very broad spectrum.
2001 Professor Knud Holscher for his great talent for styling, from overall planning and architecture, to design.
2001 Professor Nils-Ole Lund for his gifted way of engaging in questions surrounding architecture and for being one of the principal organizers in the establishment of the Århus School of Architecture.
2001 Marianne Ingvartsen for her engagement in teaching and practical work and competitions within urban renewal and housing.
2001 Royal Superintendent of Architecture Jens Fredslund for his considerate and high quality work with the restoration of buildings.
2001 Knud Fladeland for his talented architecture work in many competitions with forward-looking and promising results.
2001 Professor Sven-Ingvar Andersson for his highly qualified, also internationally speaking, work within garden and landscape architecture.
1999 Henning Larsen for his ability to create outstanding architecture that brings greater experiences than the assignments require.
1998 Royal Superintendent of Architecture, architect David Bretton-Meyer for his significant contribution to raising the regard, care of and respect for our architectural heritage, including restoring neoclassical buildings such as those at Copenhagen University.
1997 Architects Knud Friis and Elmer Moltke for a thorough approach to strength and quality, regardless of the task or the budget – as well as the skill, professionalism and architectural nerve that supports the quality.
1995 Professor Tobias Faber for his important to Danish architecture and for the quality of education within architecture and the development of the discipline.
1992 Professor Mogens Koch for demonstrating a level of quality that has been of enormous importance for Danish industrial design throughout his long life.
1989 The architecture prize was given to a publication about architect Johan Otto Spreckelsen’s structure "La Grande Arche de la Défence" in Paris.
1988 Hanne Kjærholm for her high level of quality and individuality, and her sense of balance and modernity.
1985 Ulrik Plesner for his contributions as an architect and a teacher outside Denmark – in Sri Lanka and Israel.
1984 Johan Fog and Per Følner for the Wasa project in Stockholm.
1982 Vilhelm Wohlert for his restoration of Copenhagen Cathedral.
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