Apple hired the architect Norman Foster to design a new 148-acre HQ modeled after Masdar City (above) in Abu Dhabi.

Al Jazeera's news magazine program takes a look at the state of Dubai one year after it's debt crisis. In November 2009, Dubai World suddenly announced a debt standstill, sending markets into a panic and bringing the building boom to a sudden end. Since, there's been a debt restructuring and several state firms have been consolidated.