Lawrence Nield is an Australian retired architect, who since 2012 has been head of the Heritage Council of New South Wales.
[2] He was head of master planning for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
[2] He was one of the founders of BVN Architecture (formerly Bligh Voller Nield).
In March 2013 Nield was appointed the Northern Territory Government Architect a position he held until 2018.
He won the Australian Institute of Architects 2012 Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement,[2] and the French Republic's Order of Arts and Letters in 2007,[1] and the 1997 Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture, which he won with his design of the Sunshine Coast University Library.