 Into the 18th century, the settlement in Bermuda, and thus the architecture of Bermuda, had been developing for a century.In 1712 and 1714, two particularly bad hurricane strikes showcased the need for the resilient local structures in lieu of European designs, thus ensuring that local architecture would continue to progress.Georgian architecture, at least in the British sense, did not catch on in Bermuda, though the contemporary local style did resemble the "colonial Georgian" of North America.